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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The. Problem. Is. The. F#ck!ng. Guns.[/quote]

I’m anti-gun, but these incidents aren’t prompted by guns.

It’s standard thievery: mugging, assault, etc.

This will happen with or without guns (think: knives, hammers, fists). This happens all over Europe where they don’t have guns and simply use knives or hammers.

Candidly, I’m worried that the current racial and economic climate are fueling these incidents. And “rich” college kids are easy targets. [/quote]

College kids do not get robbed and killed much in Europe. Have you lived there?

Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, bologna, Leipzig, Zurich, Vienna….

….public safety is one of the largest differences between us and Europe. There is a latent layer of violence and deviancy in the us that hangs like a cloud that is no where near the issue in Europe.

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Huh.  Everyone I knew who did a semester abroad had a story about being robbed. Especially in Italy and Spain. And have you ever heard of Amanda Knox? The girl that was murdered in that case was a British student.

A quick search turned up many stories (listed below) and this interesting article: https://www.thedailybeast.com/someone-is-targeting-american-students-abroad

ROME — If the shocking death of 19-year-old American study-abroad student Beau Solomon after a night of partying in Rome sounds all-too-familiar, that’s because it is.

Solomon is the fifth American-born student to die in the last five years on the streets of Rome’s historical city center. Three, like Solomon, were robbed first. The others, including Andrew Keith Carr, 21, and Han Kwang Lee, 19, were not, but they perished after falling from bridges or high walls after a night out on the town.

Countless others are regularly robbed, raped or attacked every year.

And who’s to blame? Apparently no one.

Roman police say it is the fault of the foreign universities for not adequately warning students in study abroad programs about the perils of alcohol consumption or about those who prey on novice drinkers and foreigners abroad.

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Over-indulging aside, there is little doubt to anyone who lives in this city about the presence of predators lurking along the sidelines of almost any occasion to take advantage of all types of foreigners. Religious pilgrims get robbed on buses to the Vatican, young women are frequently drugged with date-rape pills, and young men, it would seem, get robbed and rolled on a regular basis.

“Everyone knows these thugs are out there,” a bartender at the G-Bar in the Trastevere district, where Solomon had his last drink, told The Daily Beast as she delivered a sloppy tray of shottini to another group of Americans who had recently arrived in Rome. “They usually have a girl that lures the boys away, and then their friends mug him. It happens a lot.”

A few more examples (I’m sure there are more, that’s just what popped up in the first two pages os search results):

A university student raped and murdered in England. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/11/man-pawel-relowicz-found-guilty-hull-student-libby-squire

Seven students at a German University were intentionally poisoned. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/24/1030592762/poisoning-students-germany-university-college-darmstadt

Maybe you don’t count Russia, but a student killed eight people at a Russian University. https://www.npr.org/2021/09/20/1038871894/gunman-russia-perm-state-university-shooting-updates

A teacher killed and two college professors given police protection in France. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56325254

When I was looking for these stories, I discovered that deaths from hazing is a big problem in Europe.  Who knew?
A death in Belgium: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58106534 
Apparently, there is widespread hazing at universities in Portugal (of everyone, not just fraternities).  [u]Six[/u] students died in one incident. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/world/europe/student-deaths-spark-debate-over-hazing-at-portugals-universities.html
https://www.ceu.edu/article/2020-07-08/central-european-university-mourns-death-student-raza-khan[/quote]

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