Icelandic Police Shoot and Kill A Person Shooting at Them
According to reports this is the very first time ever that the Icelandic Police killed anybody. (Since they started keeping records of this.)
Bloomberg News calls Iceland a weird place. there is a registered gun for about 33% of the population and yet the police just don't shoot people, at least not until yesterday.
Being of Icelandic descent I can only imagine that going for a gun to settle something is not on the radar. Maybe because of living on a small island it is clear that you can run but you can't hide.
The homicide rate is a fraction of the rate in the U.S., buying a gun is difficult and time consuming.
About all I can add to the discussion is the homogeneous nature of the population ethnically, racially, and economically. Maybe people don't feel entitled to kill someone if they get pissed off, because your neighbor is more or less just like you.
Bloomberg News calls Iceland a weird place. there is a registered gun for about 33% of the population and yet the police just don't shoot people, at least not until yesterday.
Being of Icelandic descent I can only imagine that going for a gun to settle something is not on the radar. Maybe because of living on a small island it is clear that you can run but you can't hide.
The homicide rate is a fraction of the rate in the U.S., buying a gun is difficult and time consuming.
About all I can add to the discussion is the homogeneous nature of the population ethnically, racially, and economically. Maybe people don't feel entitled to kill someone if they get pissed off, because your neighbor is more or less just like you.
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