Skyderi i København -- We had a Shooting

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Søndag  aften skød en mand ti andre mennesker i et indkøbscenter.i København.

Det gør mig ondt for ofrene og deres familier og for alle, der blev berørt af skyderiet.

Men det gør mig også ondt for alle os almindelige danskere og turister, der nu skal leve med virkningerne, for lur mig om ikke der sker noget.

① Det første, der nu sker, er 'Blame-game'. Hvem burde have gjort noget, set noget, vidst noget - klatten kommer til at køre fra politiet til psykiatrien til skolesystemet og tilbage igen.

② Og så kommer vi til våbnene - hvor kom de fra, hvordan kunne han få fat i dem ...
     Her skal i parentes bemærkes at han IKKE havde et automatvåben - og se lige på tallene: ti personer ramt af skud på ti minutter ... og så forestil dig ti minutter med et halvautomatisk våben.
     Han må have gået til skydning, for han kunne ramme, dødeligt.
     Og jeg mener, at vi faktisk gør nok i Danmark for at holde våben ude af almindeligt omløb. Man skal, som jeg skrev i den engelske tekst, have tilladelse, gyldigt jaggtegn osv. for at have et våben ... ja faktisk kræves dette bare for at gå ind i den afdeling af jagtbutikkerne der sælger ammunition.

③ Så kommer snakken om hvad vi skal have af tiltag for at hindre at det sker igen. Og så rammer konsekvenserne os alle sammen: Mere overvågning, flere vagter, mere kontrol, mindre frihed.
     Jeg håber det ikke ender sådan, men jeg frygter det.

PS: (Tirsdag morgen) Ofrene var jo et helt almindeligt udsnit af, hvad man ville møde i Field's en søndag eftermiddag.. Unge og ældre, mænd og kvinder, danskere og svenskere og en enkelt indvandrer (russeren vil nok ikke stikke ud som indvandrer). Så terror, fremmedfjendske, eller misogyne motiver  ... hmm det tror jeg ikke. Med mindre, der er et motiv, jeg ikke lige kan få øje på, er det nok sådan en episode, der ikke kan forebygges på andet end personligt plan. Altså, flere penge til psykiatrien.

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Sunday evening a man shot ten people in a shopping mall in Copenhagen.

Of course I feel sorry for the victims and their families and for all that was touched by this.
But I also feel sorry for us ordinary Danes, and tourists who are going to live with the consequentness of this.

Fact box: ten hit by shots in Field's (the name of the shopping mall)

In all ten persons were hit by shots on July 3rd.

• Three were killed: One 17 year old Danish boy, one 17 year  old Danish girl, one 46 year old Russian living in Denmark.
• Four seriously wounded: Two Danish women, 19 and 40 years of age, one Swedish man aged 50, and one 16 years old Swedish girl.
• Three lightly wounded by shots: a 15 years old Danish girl, a 17 years old Danish girl and a 45 years old Afghan man living in Denmark.

(Source: The police of Copenhagen)

Now my prophesy, and why I feel sorry for us all.

① First to happen is the Blame Game: Who should have done something, seen something, known something - the blame will circulate from the police to the psychiatry to the school system and back again.

② And then we get to the weapons - where did they come from, how did he get them, why did nobody stop him from having them, and so on. Possession of weapon is uncommon, you ned learn how t shoot, have a paper from the police, renewed regularly,and keep the weapon under lock in your home.
  Note that he did NOT have any automatic or semi-automatic weapon; just a rifle - look at the numbers: ten people hit in ten minutes ... now imagine ten minutes with a semi-automatic weapon ...
  He must have had lots of shooting practise (not a common thing in Denmark), because he could hit, fatally.

③ Then we'll talk about what we need to do to prevent it from happening again. And those  consequences will hit us all: More surveillance, more guards, more control, less freedom.

I hope it doesn't end like this, but I fear it will.

PS (added Tuesday morning): The victims are a fair sample of what you'll meet a Sunday afternoon in Field's. Sweden is 20 minutes by train, Russians and people from Afghanistan are not an uncommon sight in Denmark either.  In short, no terror, no racism, no misogynistic motives here. I think - unless I missed something obvious - that the solution is personal. And I would ask for more money for the psychiatric wards.