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In reply to the discussion: AP: Gunman Believed To Suffer From Personality Disorder [View all]Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)There are less than 5 million people living in Norway. There are about 313 million in the US. Based on populations alone, one would expect about 62 times more such incidents in the US than in Norway. In other words, if you had one in 10 years in Norway you would expect 62 incidents in the US during that time frame.
I don't, of course, expect one such incident in Norway every 10 years. Probably more like one or two a century, which is still too much. But Norway did have laws, and they did not protect Norway. It may just be that Breivik was smart and determined enough to circumvent them, but I don't know because I don't live there and I haven't seen an analysis of what went wrong.
You would expect 3-4 times more such incidents in China than in the US due to relative populations, and that sounds about right to me based on the news.
It may just be that the human race has a certain small incidence of berserkers, and that we can only take precautions against them but not eliminate the berserkers themselves.