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I am from Slovakia and yes - this idiot actually went to our capital city (near border) to a gun shop and tried to buy ammunition for his AK-47. Of course you can't buy anything if you are not a citizen and you don't have a gun permit. So he didn't buy anything, the seller contacted the police and they did a background check and found out that he was sentenced for radicalism, he tried to go to Syria to fight a war and so on. They sent an official warning in June to Austria. Austria didn't act. You will find lots of news on this. There is actually a scan of the official letter Slovakia sent with all the details floating on the internet, but it's in Slovak: https://i.imgur.com/vxCU6tN.png

They want to ban encryption, but they can't arrest and stop the attack based on DIRECT evidence? Please...

Thanks, I couldn't have written it better. @lprd It was all over the news in the German language sphere, which I happen to receive via satellite. (German and Austrian news). I don't have links at the ready but you're able to find them with a little google-fu (or similar search engine).

I remind the readers about the upload filters "guidelines" and other internet censorship "guidelines". The EU is not a democracy, it's a corrupt rule of a few political elites. And they want to spy on us. First they went the NSA route, and when that blew up because of Edward Snowden, now they want their own NSA.

In which democracy does a parliament elected by the people have 0 rights over a council? And the council has veto power about anything the parliament decides? Is that a democracy? No it's not.

Those are the people who make the rules: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/european-council/members/

It doesn't matter who's in the parliament as they're powerless to decide anything meaningful.

Let no tragedy go unexploited

> but they can't arrest and stop the attack based on DIRECT evidence?

Ah but that would require someone to actually do something, that would be too hard. And I guess for some of the "human rights" crowd, some people have all the benefit of the doubt unless they're caught in the act

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