Dimi,
I too am deeply saddened for the effected folks, their friends and their families.
Additionally as you say countries with strict gun control laws still have shootings, but I'd like you opinion on this chart.
These are UN murder statistics with guns by country from 2002, this data is a little old, but it seems that countries with strict gun laws have considerably fewer deaths.
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Rank** Countries* Amount*
# 1 * **South Africa: 31,918*
# 2 * **Colombia: 21,898*
# 3 * **Thailand: 20,032*
# 4 * **United States: 9,369*
# 5 * **Philippines: 7,708*
# 6 * **Mexico: 2,606*
# 7 * **Slovakia: 2,356*
# 8 * **El Salvador: 1,441*
# 9 * **Zimbabwe: 598*
# 10 * **Peru: 442*
# 11 * **Germany: 269*
# 12 * **Czech Republic: 181*
# 13 * **Ukraine: 173*
# 14 * **Canada: 144*
# 15 * **Albania: 135*
# 16 * **Costa Rica: 131*
# 17 * **Azerbaijan: 120*
# 18 * **Poland: 111*
# 19 * **Uruguay: 109*
# 20 * **Spain: 97*
# 21 * **Portugal: 90*
# 22 * **Croatia: 76*
# 23 * **Switzerland: 68*
# 24 * **Bulgaria: 63*
# 25 * **Australia: 59*
# 26 * **Sweden: 58*
# 27 * **Bolivia: 52*
# 28 * **Japan: 47*
# 29 * **Slovenia: 39*
= 30 * **Belarus: 38*
= 30 * **Hungary: 38*
# 32 * **Latvia: 28*
# 33 * **Burma: 27*
# 34 * **Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 26*
# 35 * **Austria: 25*
# 36 * **Estonia: 21*
# 37 * **Moldova: 20*
# 38 * **Lithuania: 16*
= 39 * **United Kingdom: 14*
= 39 * **Denmark: 14*
# 41 * **Ireland: 12*
# 42 * **New Zealand: 10*
# 43 * **Chile: 9*
# 44 * **Cyprus: 4*
# 45 * **Morocco: 1*
= 46 * **Oman: 0*
= 46 * **Luxembourg: 0*
= 46 * **Iceland: 0*
Total: 100,693**