Norway Attacks: Shaken Nation Sees Shades of Oklahoma City

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/norway-attacks-police-say-suspect-used-car-bomb-two-guns-killing-at-least-92/2011/07/23/gIQAVYeOVI_story_1.html

The article is welldone, and goes from summarizing the scope of the attack, to the suspect's history, and the Norwegian response. What I think he does best, is point out (1) how this kind of attack is unheard of in Norway, especially how shocking it is to a "to residents of a city that thinks of itself as home to the Nobel Peace Prize." and (2) How Europe has been on edge for attacks from Islamic terrorists, not Christian terrorists, and the lack of acknowledgement that terrorists aren't just arabs.

Ninety-two people died as a result of one person's attacks, and 85 of them were shot. Are people given to much access to weapons that can cause massive fatalities? I know that this attack was in Norway, but it's really easy to get guns in the US, too, and while we've had shootings that killed many people, it's completely unheard of, that one person could kill so many in only 90 minutes.

"Sigrid Skeie Tjensvoll, who had come out to see the bomb damage in Oslo, agreed. “If Islamic people do something bad, you think, ‘Oh, it’s Muslims,’ ” she said. “But if a white Protestant does something bad, you just think he’s mad. That’s something we need to think about." I think that this raises a really important point. We've spent so much time stereotyping Muslims as terrorists, when we shouldn't worry about Islamic terrorism, but terrorism in general. Even after Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma, the US and Europe seem to have ignored the fact that white Christians are just as capable of horrific violence as everyone else. What do you guys think?