One dead after shootout at Danish meeting with controversial artist Vilks.

[Warren Stupidity]

Reuters) - One civilian was killed and three police were wounded on Saturday in shooting at a public meeting in the Danish capital Copenhagen attended by the controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks, police and the Danish Ritzau news agency reported.

Danish police confirmed one civilian had been killed in a shooting and said the suspects had fled in a car.

Ritzau said both Vilks and the French ambassador, who was also attending, were both unharmed, but that three police had been wounded. The gathering was billed as a debate on art and blasphemy.

Vilks stirred controversy in 2007 with published drawings depicting Mohammad as a dog which sparked threats from Islamist militant groups.

He has received numerous death threats and has lived under constant protection by the Swedish police since 2010. Two years ago, an American woman who called herself Jihad Jane was sentenced to 10 years in prison for plotting to kill him.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/14/us-denmark-shooting-idUSKBN0LI0N720150214

[yeoman6987]

1. How was the shooter able to get a gun?

I thought They were unable to own guns.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. that's what you got out of this, a gunner talking point?

Denmark firearm homicide rate per 100,000: 0.27
USA firearm homicide rate per 100,000: 2.97

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list

[Duckhunter935]

3. are suicides part of those numbers?

[TampaAnimusVortex]

5. Well as long as we are tossing stats...

Many countries with much stricter gun control have far higher murder rates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Cities with stricter gun control have higher rates of murder.
http://nation.time.com/2014/01/02/murders-in-u-s-cities-again-at-record-lows/

Overall correlation of gun ownership to murder = weakly negatively correlated.
http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m2/gun-murder-stats1.htm

[yeoman6987]

6. It is very important part of it...actually the most important part!

[msongs]

4. gun worshipping people have their ways to inflict damage on decent citizens nt