Fear and loathing in the British county Cumbria by Zivka Deleva

Something is rotten in the State of Denmark - Hamlet asked himself a long time ago in the Shakespearean play. Something is rotten in the England's county of Cumbria, I could write today, after one man killed 12 people and left 25 wounded. British people are shocked, because this is the first most massive shooting in Great Britain in the last 14 years. This is a rare situation in this country, knowing that handguns are forbidden and that's why the massive shooting almost don't happen. In the last few years there have been less then a hundred gun murders annually across the whole country. The body of a 52-year-old taxi-driver Derrick Bird was found in woods near Boot, a plac! e popular with vacationers. The police is convinced that he was the gunman. The rampage happened in the county of Cumbria. The police still doesn't know his motive. Some people say that he was nervous the day before and had yellow fights with his taxi-colleagues. One of them, reminded himself about the last words the gunman has said the previous day - "See you Peter, but I won't see you again". The murders didn't happen at one place, on the contrary, it took him 30 places to "accomplish his intentions". Witnesses recognized two of Bird's colleagues dead. He was shooting from his car's window and directly to the faces. “When lives and communities are suddenly shattered in this way, our thoughts should be with all those caught up in these tragic events, especially the families and friends of those killed or injured,” said the Prime Minister David Cameron to the lawmakers in the House of Commons. The tight gun ownership regulation exists since two massacres ha! ppened in the 1980's and 1990's, when total 33 people were kil! led.

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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