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Teen Kills 4 in Turkey's 2nd School Shooting in 2 Days

Teen Kills 4 in Turkey's 2nd School Shooting in 2 Days

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Two school shootings in two days is a wake-up call — Turkey is sliding toward a gun violence crisis it can't ignore. A teen used his father's firearms to kill four people, including a teacher, proving that loose firearm access at home is a direct pipeline to tragedy. An economically stressed, deeply divided society makes this a brushfire waiting to spread.

Turkey's gun laws remain among the strictest in the world, and two rare incidents don't signal a systemic crisis. These shootings are extraordinary outliers — a one-in-a-million occurrence — not evidence of a broken system. Sensationalizing isolated tragedies as a national epidemic dangerously distorts the reality of how tightly regulated firearm access actually is in Turkey.


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