Posted on 12/02/2013 2:18:20 PM PST by smokingfrog
Police in Iceland said Monday they shot dead a gunman — the first time armed police have killed someone in the nation.
Iceland, which has a tiny population of around 320,000, has a low crime rate and gun violence is extremely rare. Its regular police force does not carry firearms.
Haraldur Johannessen, National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police, said Monday's incident was unprecedented.
Police said officers were called to an apartment in the Reykjavik suburb of Arbaer early Monday when a man fired a shotgun from inside the flat. Two policemen, who were not armed, were shot at when trying to enter the gunman's apartment.
Witnesses told local media that a smoke bomb was thrown into the apartment through a broken window in efforts to subdue the man. A special armed unit then entered and fired at the man, who was rushed to the hospital, where he died. No one else has been injured.
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The perp must have emigrated there from Detroit or Cicago.
...and voted for Obama. Twice.
No name given. My spidey sense is tingling with this one.
Even money the surname doesn’t contain ‘son’.
Ping.
FWIW....
The Nordic country of Iceland has one of the smallest Muslim communities in the world[citation needed], of only 770 people (as of 2013). This corresponds to 0.2% of the population of Iceland.
Iceland has had quite a few nazists, and in later years been extensively infested by Iran connections. Some of the parliament ppl are more or less directly tied to Iran.
And Fridrik Skulasson, the author of F-Prot, has had tame antisemites on staff for many years. that may/should present a problem for him, as he’s presenting tail to make himself interesting to Israeli capital. He probably hopes no one is aware.
Nevertheless.
770 muslims in Iceland is huge, and qualifies as an invasion.
But then, every community in the US, if they have a post office, tend to have at least two mosques.
The world is overrun like it was with nazists in the 1940’s.
Icelandic Amish?
“Iceland, which has a tiny population of around 320,000, has a low crime rate and gun violence is extremely rare.......officers were called to an apartment in the Reykjavik suburb of Arbaer early Monday when a man fired a shotgun from inside the flat.”
Still fairly rare, I guess. I’m confused. Are they pointing out how misguided they are in their belief about guns and criminals, or do they not know which end is the dangerous end, or what?
...Because civilian ownership of most classes of guns is prohibited.
Iceland requires immigrants to change their surname (ends in “son” or “dottir”).
or ....dottir.
They used to but that was changed a couple years ago.
They still put immigrants out in the boonies though.
If I was unmarried and 25 years old, I’d move there in a heartbeat.
Article is deceptive:
“The British broadcaster referred to its May report on Iceland’s crime rate, one of the lowest in the world despite widespread gun ownership. There are about 90,000 guns registered among Iceland’s 315,000 people, making it 15th in the world in per capita gun ownership, GunPolicy.org reports.”
see post #16
What are you talking about? We have never had much nazism here, nazis were a laughing stock in a country which barely knew what a uniform was. And what are you talking about ties to Iran or the computer company? Please refer to any kind of proof for your allegations, I at least have never heard anything like this and would like to know more if true.
The man that died had a history of mental illness, and could not be harbored at an institution I understand. He started making threats long ago, but sadly no one interveened and this is the result. Hithero the Icelandic SWAT team, called the viking team has been proud of the fact that they have never had to shoot anybody.
Oh, you may not have seen uniformed nazists marching, but that doesn’t mean no nazists. They’re there.
For the Iran links, check the farthest left and crowd-source legislators and pols for overt links to PressTV.
For the software company, check Fridrik and his old ties to East EU like Bulgaria. Not necessarily nazist, but as antisemitic as you get it, some of these folks. Same goes for the companys ties to Finland.
As I’ve said so many, many times: NO difference between socialist and national-socialist.
They have guns in Iceland? Who knew? I thought Iceland was all sweetness and light?
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