7 People Killed and 50 Injured in Arson Attack in Daegu
This is a horrible tragedy over in Daegu:
A fire apparently caused by arson killed seven people and injured 50 others at an office building in the southeastern city of Daegu on Thursday, officials said.
Police pinpointed a 53-year-old man as the suspected arsonist responsible for the blaze based on CCTV footage. The man was killed at the scene, they said.The fire started at around 10:55 a.m. on the second floor of the five-story building housing lawyers’ offices in Daegu, about 300 kilometers south of Seoul, according to firefighting officials.
Korea Times
The fire killed seven people, including an attorney and five assistants from a law office on the second floor.
Fifty others were hurt, suffering burns and inhaling smoke, and 30 of them were sent to nearby hospitals. Many others were evacuated to safety.
Police suspect the alleged arsonist set fire to a lawyer’s office handling a case involving him.
You can read more at the link.
If only they had banned guns.
Funny you don’t hear all the foreigners talking about mass killings in other countries, I think Korea needs to ban assault lighters and enact sensible fire regulation.
@Flyingsword, Korea has its fair share of crazies, for example the 2003 Daegu subway fire where a crazy guy killed 192 people. However could you imagine how much more crazy things would happen in Korea if every 18 year old with a mental condition was able to buy an AR-15?
GI, if you wanted to be honest about this, you would note that, in America at least, more people were killed by fists and feet than by all types of rifles, including AR-based designs.
The fear of black guns is every bit as valid as the fear of current WuFlu strains…
Mind you, the old AR-10 as used in the Emerald Isle had a catch song or two:
https://youtu.be/fZBjTU088qQ
(Note the Provisional IRA was really a Marxist organization which occationally took help from Islamists. They were not your typical Catholics.)
But the AR-10, like the old M-16, the newer M-4, and every other ACTUAL “weapon of war” was fully automatic. Conflating those with semi-automatic personal weapons (along with Puddingpants claim that a 9mm slug will “blow a lung out of a body”) is simply dishonest and reprehensible.
Please don’t sing that “guns are evil” song here. We all know people with large firearm collections whose guns have never killed anyone.
In contrast, the ISD and City police in Uvalde let that madman alone with unarmed teachers and children for over an hour.
The 21 dead students and teachers are as much their negligence (or confusion or cowardice) as the malicious intent of the gunman.
And ask yourself: how did he get in past a supposedly locked door? How did the ISD police not have a master key?
It’s not rocket science.
Full disclosure: I am an excellent marksman (well, for an Air Force guy); but I have no firearms because I would rather not shoot anyone, and the chemo I got back in 2016 made me cranky. So, for me, the right answer is no guns. That’s two different types of gun control I support: rounds on target and personal choice.
And to anyone “triggered” by this, please accept my apologies for using my God-given right of free speech. You are welcone to use yours, too.
Looking back at my last, it does sound more harsh than I meant it, so please excuse my lack of eloquence.
@setnaffa, so do you support 18 year olds with mental and behavioral problems being allowed to buy guns because I don’t. I am not asking to confiscate people’s weapons I just think we need some common sense on who can buy a gun. Would it prevent all gun crimes no, but I bet it would decrease it.
Actually, GI, I’m not in favor of anyone with mental illness owning a firearm, knife, pointed stick, or motor vehicle. However, attaching this test to firearm purchases will quickly result in all political opponents of the current regime (whomever it is at the time) being labeled as ineligible.
We’ve seen this in a wide variety of fascist and socialist states.
The problem we have now is the lack of REQUIRED reporting of incidents into the dayabase by schools, medical providers, and even law enforcement.
The young man who shot up the church in south Texas a few years back had a criminal record and the Air Force couldn’t be bothered to update the records and innocent people, inclinding a preacher were cut down.
Why aren’t people fired and/or prosecuted as accessories before the fact when they fail to do their job?
And to ask another question, since carrying a gun into a school and murdering women and children was already illegal, what makes anyone think another law would have changed anything?
Look at the death rates in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, and Detrout, for example. How manyof the murder guns were legally owned? And gang-related deaths far outweigh firearm-deaths of any other category except MAYBE suicide.
We can’t let the people being paid to maintain the system escape justice and blame the firearms or just nutty kids.
But maybe it was really two guys in MAGA hats, eh?
BTW, how many children were killed in Afghanistan for trying to attend school this year? (Hint: over 100, but reports are scarce as hen’s teeth.)
How many unborn children were legally vivisected to death just this week so theit T-cells could make up a science experiment or their organs sold to buy a nice car for a Planned Parenthood Administrator? (Hint: over 15,000)
There are countless cases of humans killing other humans for fun and profit. Don’t let yourself get too close to the issues and miss who is driving this train.
“And it ain’t rocket science.”
Every year, more people die from putting things up their butt than die from black rifles.
While every death of an innocent is unfortunate, the problem is not large enough to impose on the millions of people who are not a problem.
After watching the destruction of society, economy, childhood development, etc., to protect against a flu that everyone got anyway, one might think a large percentage of the population would now be able to put problems and solutions into perspective.
But we are again reminded most people are stupid.
I have nothing but ridicule for stupid people. That goes double if they wish to enforce their misguided will upon me.
That building lit up like a Christmas tree. Should probably be banning flammable building materials, Korea.
@setnaffa, if a 21 year age limit was in place to purchase guns the Valverde shooting may have been prevented. Changing the age for a firearm purchase would likely only be a blip on radar in reducing gun violence, but it is something. Anyway what do people think would happen in South Korea if everyone at age 18 could buy a gun? Would gun violence still be super low like it is now?
Look at the families of the shooters. Those demographics matter. Ask yourself about the influence your father had on you and whether, at 18, he would have allowed you to quit school, live with a grandmother, and spend thousands of dollars on firearms and ammo without having a good job and a need for those weapons
Then ask yourself about Sandy Hook, where the single Mom bought guns, taught her mentally-ill son to shoot, and he Killed her and attacked her school. How would being unable to buy weapons until 21 change that shooting.
Then ask yourself, as I mentioned earlier, about gang shootings with illegal weapons in our biggest cities. How would disarming honest people affect those shootings?
We don’t need more laws. We need more enforcement of existing laws and more adherence by the people responsible to documenting mental illness and crimes.
BTW, I think most South Korean families raise their children better than the families of the gangbangers, Ramos, and other mass-shooters. I doubt the number of crimes would increase appreciably if teens could buy them in Korea at age 16…
I might just be relying on my own experience here; but as I say, it ain’t rocket science.
It’s broken families. It’s kids with too much unstructured time. It’s a culture that utterly devalues human life and celebrates perversity.
And it’s precisely Romans 1:18-32.
Americans, especially American Christians, need to repent.
Just as I suspected, GI is a sell out to the globalist. Shooter already known to police and FBI, probably groomed into the shooting by the FBI like the Buffalo shooter. But of course you won’t comment on that.
Anybody who talks pretty much any form of gun control is full of shìt… even if they mean well.
They don’t care about gun violence… not really.
They just want to virtue signal or show they support Doing Something.
Their solutions always end up taking guns from millions of average people, including responsible 18 year-olds, because of a few nutjobs where the gun was the final link in a long blame-filled chain of obvious failure that nobody cared about.
They don’t really have any solutions to take guns away from criminals. The fact they can’t even recognize this is why they are a target for ridicule and visible disrespect.
But… even better than stating this, I will prove the validity of this statement.
Unlike the average low-IQ gun grabber who thinks the law-abiding shouldn’t have a gun because reasons, I have an actual gun control program that will stop around 60% of gun violence as well as perhaps 90% of spree shootings.
Ready?
Ban black men from owning any guns.
See how easy that was? Problem solved.
What? Nobody is thanking me for a brilliant plan that actually would reduce the majority of gun violence? The gun control people aren’t patting me on the back to congratulate me for solving this Epidemic of Violence that is Sweeping our BIPOC Communities?
I thought gun control was about saving lives and stopping violence and the children and such.
I guess it was about control after all.
Alright, gun grabbers, after you have done something to actually solve gun violence, we will continue this discussion.
Until then, go fùck yourselves.
CH, if you’d have said all Democrats, I could have agreed with you.
The other thing is that criminals don’t obey the law. And with our borders more porous than a face diaper from Buccee’s Truck Stop ($1.50 / 50), there is literally no way to stop illegal firearms from reaching the criminals who want them.
But sure, let’s disarm honest folks so the cops can set up a perimeter like they did at Columbine in CO, Parkland in FL, and Uvalde in TX.
Sorry. No sale. And I don’t own/won’t own any.
But none of us have the right to whinge and complain about nutjobs with guns if we don’t fix the existing enforcement and reporting issues.
Okay. That horse is dead. I will stop beating it.
Congressman Swalwell makes my point for me:
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1536336093443940356
BTW, I’m not a fan of Ben Shapiro; but in this case, he struck bedrock.
@setnaffa, already said a 21 year old age limit would only slightly reduce gun violence and is not meant to be a silver bullet. There is no one solution to the problem and yes broken families are part of it. However, you can’t legislate everyone to have a good family. I also never stated disarming anyone. If a parent wants to buy a gun and teach their kid how to shoot it, to me that is fine. All I am saying is under 21 should not be allowed to buy firearms.
GI, group punishment is the desperate act of those with no real ideas to give the illusion they are solving a problem.
There are millions of under-21s who can drive, drink, and own a gun responsibly. There are fewer than 10 who cannot.
Solutions must be proportional to a problem or a larger problem is created. Exhibit A: recent history.
Once again, instead of limiting millions of innocent people to (maybe) manage the behavior of a handful, how about we actually take steps that unquestionably solve the majority of the problem.
Ban black people from owning firearms. Would you disagree with the idea that half of gun crime would dissappear overnight? What isn’t to like about that result?
I realize this is a dream, though, because of racism.
Black people are mostly killing other black people so the institutionalized racism in America will never take their guns away.
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I’d like to ask the former US military members of the ROK Drop a question.
What are the rules and regulations regarding firearms for off duty military personnel and civilians on base?
The military really encourages GIs and civilian contractors to bring their personal firearms and at least 1000 rounds of ammo.
Most people keep them on a table or on a hook near the door where they can get to them easily in case a slickyboy comes to steal their unregulated soju.
The Korean government and media has been really cooperative by not publicizing the occasional mishap. I even got a generous payout when a couple of stray rounds hit my car.
If you need an AK-15 semiautomatic sawed off Saturday night special assault rifle machine gun, just go to a GI club and ask around.
Hey CH, I heard the clubs in Osan even sell those 300-round clips for 9mm pistols, so you can blow the lungs out of an under-strength battalion without needing to reload.
Unfortunately, the M99 Chainsaw bayonets are getting harder to find now. But a diligent buyer could probably get a good deal on the M203.25 Flamethrower Attachment with five gallon capacity backpack as they are being phased out.