Student shoots 3 in Greek college, kills himself

[Behind the Aegis]

Source: Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A teenage gunman who wounded three people at a college in Greece and killed himself had warned of the attack hours earlier on an Internet posting that included photographs of him posing with weapons, police said.

The 19-year-old man, armed with two handguns and a knife, opened fire at the vocational training college in western Athens and then shot himself in the head, authorities said. He died in hospital several hours later.

One student was shot in the chest and seriously wounded and two men were shot outside the building and suffered lighter injuries, police and Health Ministry officials said.

The gunman left a note accusing his fellow students of picking on him, and posted the message on a social networking site.

"I have no reason to continue living. But, unluckily for you, I'm too selfish to leave and let you keep living ... ," he said in the note which was written in Greek.



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[napoleon_in_rags]

1. Isn't that two today at colleges?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/10/mich.college.shooting/

I wonder if one triggered the other in any way.

[baldguy]

2. 2nd Amendment Uber Alles

The guns are winning.

[Codeine]

3. They have very strict gun laws in Greece. nt

[baldguy]

6. oops

I suppose I could be forgiven for thinking this was a component of the current rash of RW American insanity.

[TheWraith]

7. No, it's proof that we're not the only country with violence problems.

Stemming mostly from mental illness and poverty.

[baldguy]

8. There is a difference.

In the rest of the entire world this shit happens every 5 or 6 months. Here it happens every other day.

Either Americans are more stupid and insane - or its because we have many many many many more guns available.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

12. Jerk Alert, I mean Knee Jerk Alert.

[Alamuti Lotus]

13. No, you should not be forgiven for lazy, knee-jerk recital of chambered talking points..

the fact that Greece's very strong gun laws neglected to regulate human stupidity only serves to highlight the irony of the reply.

[Pavulon]

4. Wrong country...

[DBoon]

5. I doubt the 2nd amendment applies in Greece

but angry people with guns are the same throughout the world

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

11. Can you even read? Greece isn't in the United States. You need a stupidity alert for yourself.

[Odin2005]

15. Greece ain't part of the US, doofus.

Go back to World Geography 101.

[ben_jenne]

9. Do they get Limbaugh and Beck in Athens?

[Flagg]

10. No but they do get CNN International

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

16. Certainly they are to blame.

[Odin2005]

14. But, I though shootings only happen in the US because we are a bunch of Gun-Nuts!?!

:sarcasm:

[ShareTheWoods]

17. Hannity, wingers and the 2nd amendment does it again

Oh wait.... this is not in America!