Assailant with bow and arrows kills 5 people in Norway

[HCM]

https://news.yahoo.com/norway-severa...192850888.html

Assailant with bow and arrows kills 5 people in Norway

A man armed with a bow and arrows killed five people Wednesday near the Norwegian capital of Oslo before he was arrested, authorities said.

The police chief in the town of Kongsberg said there was “a confrontation” between officers and the assailant, but he did not elaborate. Two other people were wounded and hospitalized in intensive care, including an officer who was off duty and inside the shop where the attack took place, police said.

“The man who carried out the act has been arrested by the police, and there is no active search for more people. Based on the information we have, there is one person behind this,” Police Chief Oeying Aas said.

Acting Prime Minister Erna Solberg described the attack as “gruesome” and said it was too early to speculate on the man's motive. The prime minister-designate, Jonas Gahr Stoere, who is expected to take office Thursday, called the assault “a cruel and brutal act” in comments to Norwegian news agency NTB.

Police were alerted to the attack around 6:30 p.m. and arrested the suspect about 20 minutes later. The community is 66 kilometers (41 miles) southwest of Oslo.

According to police, the suspect walked around the city shooting at people with arrows.

The man has not been questioned yet, Aas said.

City officials invited people who were affected by the attack and their relatives to gather for support at a local hotel.

The attack comes over a decade after Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist, set off a bomb in Oslo’s government district and then carried out a shooting massacre at the summer camp of the left-wing Labor Party’s youth organization on Utoya island. The violence on July 22, 2011, killed 77 people and stunned Norway.

[feudist]

No honest man needs more than 2 arrows to hunt with.

Something must be done!

[OlongJohnson]

Dupe thread.

https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....s-Norwegian-Ed

[HCM]

Dupe thread.

https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....s-Norwegian-Ed

Poor thread title

[Tensaw]

If only some armed citizen had been nearby, perhaps they could have stopped him sooner. Oh,... wait...

Side-rail: I intellectually understand that, generally speaking, a wound from a serious caliber firearm is, I suppose, more lethal than being hit with an arrow. But the *visual* of getting hit with an arrow is simply terrifying.

[Stephanie B]

If only some armed citizen had been nearby, perhaps they could have stopped him sooner. Oh,... wait...

Side-rail: I intellectually understand that, generally speaking, a wound from a serious caliber firearm is, I suppose, more lethal than being hit with an arrow. But the *visual* of getting hit with an arrow is simply terrifying.

First, the easy counter-argument is that the perp could then have gotten a gun.

Second, some of those broadheads look really nasty.

[OlongJohnson]

Norway's gun control laws are like a wish list for CA, NY and NJ put together, but it didn't stop Breivik. He spent years jumping through all the hoops to get his Mini 14. The only thing that will stop a motivated planner is the complete absence of firearms, plus the inability to manufacture them. Not even Australia/New Zealand/UK have accomplished the former, and nobody is going to sign up for the latter. (Errr....nobody except the CA legislature.)

[HCM]

First, the easy counter-argument is that the perp could then have gotten a gun.

Second, some of those broadheads look really nasty.

There is something primal about arrows sticking out of someone.

[blues]

There is something primal about arrows sticking out of someone.

...else

[ccmdfd]

Think about it.



The current expert opinion regarding handgun wounding states that the only damage done is that which is crushed/cut by the bullet itself. All of the energy/shock/temporary cavity plays no role.



Typical broadheads I use for deer hunting cut up to 2 inches wide, and are traveling at 400 fps. Compare that wound channel to a .45 wide bullet channel.



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