Gun Homicides in Europe, An Overview :: 02/01/2012

The BBC News recently published an article entitled "Gun Attacks in Europe ." In the article, the authors briefly discussed gun homicides for a selected group of European countries along with each country's stance with respect to gun control .

For example, after highlighting the murderous rampage of Anders Behring Breivik , the article goes on to state that Norway is moving in the direction of tougher gun laws:

In the aftermath of the attacks Norway's police chief, Oeystein Maeland, said that he wanted a tightening of the laws on semi-automatic weapon ownership.