13 People Shot Dead in Serbia Gun Rampage

April 9, 2013

Serbia has stricter gun laws than anything being proposed in Congress. No one can legally get guns in Serbia.

So how can this possibly happen?

The London Evening Standard writes:

A 60-year-old war veteran has shot dead 13 people in Serbia, including a baby, in a pre-dawn house-to-house rampage before trying to kill himself and his wife.

Ljubisa Bogdanovic, used a handgun in the attacks at five houses in Velika Ivanca, a village 30 miles from Belgrade. The dead included six women, several of them his relatives.

The killer and his wife survived, but with serious injuries.

Villagers described the suspect as having been a nice, quiet man. They said he first killed his son before leaving the house and then began shooting his neighbours, some of whom were still asleep.

“He knocked on the doors and as they were opened he just fired a shot,” said Radovan Radosavljevic. “He was a good neighbour and anyone would open their doors to him. I don’t know what happened.”

Another neighbour Milovan Kostadinovic said Bogdanovic was caught by a police patrol while on the way to his house.

The answer is simple, no one has a gun, and could do nothing about it.