But, but, but Guns Aren't a Problem!!!!

[LotusBud]

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[jack]

When you're school shopping for kids and you're looking at bullet proof backpacks, guns are the problem.

 

[LotusBud]

Sheer insanity. There has not been a single, solitary mass shooting in Portugal, ever. And there have been so few in the entire EU, every one of them is an isolated, historical event that everyone remembers. What is fucking wrong with the US?

 

[jack]

Sheer insanity. There has not been a single, solitary mass shooting in Portugal, ever. And there have been so few in the entire EU, every one of them is an isolated, historical event that everyone remembers. What is fucking wrong with the US?

There's some kind of gang war going on in Portugal currently, isn't there?

 

[LotusBud]

There's some kind of gang war going on in Portugal currently, isn't there?

Not tht I've heard of. I never even heard of gangs here. There were some international drug dealer shootings in Lisbon.

 

[jack]

• Operation Azul 2.0 (June/July 2026): Led by the
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  , this international joint action intercepted a major Atlantic cocaine pipeline. Operating between the Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Azores, authorities seized 465 kg of cocaine, hashish, and multiple high-speed vessels. [
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• Record Azores Submersible Bust (January 2026): Portuguese police intercepted a custom-built, semi-submersible "narco-sub" 230 nautical miles off the Azores. The operation yielded a record-breaking 9 tonnes of cocaine originating from Latin America, making it the largest single cocaine seizure in the country's history. [
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• Algarve Maritime Interception (April 2026): A coordinated maritime strike by the
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  and the GNR along the Vicentine and Algarve coasts resulted in the seizure of 3.4 tonnes of hashish and several high-performance vehicles. [
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Organized Human Smuggling Crackdowns

• Operation "Miraculous Land" (May 2026): Authorities completely dismantled a sophisticated human smuggling and fraud ring operating on the outskirts of Lisbon. The criminal network used stolen corporate credentials from insolvent companies to fabricate fake employment contracts, illegally attempting to regularize the status of 4,000 migrants for hundreds of thousands of euros in profit.

 

[Alfred E. Neutrump]

Can we blame those shootings on the Amish?