There was a school shooting in Graz, Austria. The details that are being reported are difficult to reconcile.
A bit of background
One quirk of the European model of education is "tracking". Kids with an aptitude for math (for instance) are tracked into hard sciences and engineering oriented programs. Kids with excellent spacial awareness are tracked into skilled trades or athletics. Kids with excellent verbal skills are tracked into legal pathways and so on. Tracking can start as early as 3rd grade.
The facts that don't align
The shooter has was not a student at the school they shot-up for 9 years. The shooter was 21 and "dropped out" or "voluntarily" left the school as a sixth-grader.
The adjective used to describe the shooter was "...bullied..."
The perpetrator is (oddly) only identified as "Artur A" and no images of the shooter have been made public. Pictures of the perpetrator are often published when heinous crimes are committed so authorities can tap the public to get a clearer picture of motives and possible accomplices. And why would Artur's privacy be protected (unless "A" is their entire surname)? Artur is not a minor.
The victims were in first, second and third grade when the student left the school.
Seven of the students who were killed were girls while three of the victims were boys.
If this happened in the US, I would automatically jump to the conclusion that the shooter was a transsexual who was already "on the the radar".
I believe Artur was as Austrian as a dolphin.
ReplyDeleteSNIP Although Graz is Austria’s second-largest city after Vienna, its medium-sized urban center still provides a high quality of living. It’s also a cultural melting pot, with a little over a quarter of its inhabitants being immigrants.
DeleteNot to say he-she-it might have been trans but a lot of diversity events are well concealed by the government.
Sad indeed, the innocent die and the living suffer from this event for their whole lives.
My experience from spending a fair amount of time over just north of there is that they don’t publish as many personal details of criminals. Privacy is much better in Europe than here. Even if it may not be what we would say is in the public interest.
ReplyDeleteAbout 100% of the time the euro's don't show pic of the perp is when it does not fit the narrative, pretty much like American Pravda. They will blast a white face all over the news immediately.
DeleteThere were pictures in the news yesterday. Austrian, with Austrian mother and Armenian father. I can't find the pictures now, but I will check again.
ReplyDeleteThe thing that makes me angry...based on the tragic events that happen on this side of the Atlantic WAY TOO OFTEN...is that we know with a high degree of certainty that transexuals are a disproportionately large part of the problem.
ReplyDeleteWe have know for a very long time that people who inflict violence on themselves (i.e. cutting, yanking out their hair) have few inhibitions about inflicting violence on others.
Transexual procedures are just highly profitable "gender mutilation" and the hormones only make the patient more emotionally unstable. Those surgeries are "cutting" done by a proxy.
Who hate so deeply that they slaughter people nine years later? Who is so unhinged, so possessed by the devil that they slaughter people who never bullied them (if revenge for being bullied was really the motive)?
School violence is a nasty problem and you cannot fix a problem if you refuse to acknowledge the source of the problem. If you attack people with "You should be uplifting the trans community..."
I understand there's a saying in Germany (maybe Austria too) that translates as "If they don't tell us then we know." It's also a common suspicion in Britain. How about France: are the authorities franker?
ReplyDeleteNice pun......
DeleteI think it works the other way around here. If they don't tell you the nationality, then he was Austrian. If it is someone from one of the traditional source countries like Romania or Bosnia, they will say it immediately. Even if the person is nationalised it will be as person with immigration in their past. The same would apply to born here of parents who immigrated. These things are mentioned immediately.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Simon.
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