Reply #116: And later the same year (In Switzerland...) or... I don't know.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

t about 10:30 A.M. on September 27, a 57-year-old man from Zurich (we won't give the killer publicity by mentioning his name), burst into the regional parliament of Zug — a canton in central Switzerland, near Lucerne — and opened fire, killing 14 people, all of them elected officials. He then appears to have committed suicide.

Fourteen more were wounded. The killer thought he was on a vendetta against government and law enforcement. He had brought charges against public officers seven times; all his accusations were dismissed as frivolous. While shooting, he called his victims "Mafia" and "bastards." A letter was found wherein he referred to a coming "day of reckoning for the Zug mafia."

The killer wore a jacket with the word "Polizei," although the jacket was not an official uniform of Swiss police. He fired several 20-round magazines from a semiautomatic SIG PE 90 rifle. He also had a pump action shotgun, a Sig Sauer 7.65mm pistol, a revolver, and a canister containing gasoline.

In 1970, according to Swiss television, the killer had been sentenced to 18 months in prison for several crimes, including sexual offenses against children. Because his felonies had been legally expunged due to the passage of time, he was allowed to purchase firearms. In the 1980s he was investigated for various offences, including assaults. Finally, in 1998, he used a revolver to threaten a bus driver. In his demented mind, he was fighting his own battle against the local transportation agency "Zugerland" whose chief, Robert Bisig, was also a member of the local parliament, and was wounded in the recent shooting.

more: http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel103001.shtml

And there are (unfortunately) many other occurrances to rebutt the "guns are good" faction.