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No, it’s a rhetorical one.
You have to be a special kind of asshole to attack people who dedicate their life to save others. >

It's a new era where pathetic, loser psychopaths go after the easiest targets. In America, our terrorist go after schools, churches and casual public because they're the least defensive; perfect for cowards. Calling emergency workers and attacking them just seems generally lazy ontop of psychotic. Whole worlds going to shit. >

I mean, cool, but one in how many? >

Doesn't matter. If it happens once that's all the validation they need and bo amount of facts and reality will change their minds. >

Change his mind about what? What statement was he making besides “this guy was a badass”? >

That shootings won't happen because naturally EVERYWHERE there's some heavily armednutjob willing to risk his life to take them down. It's a very common anti gun control argument that ignores that despite the united states' having more guns per Capita than anywhere else armed public response to an active shooter is a fraction of a percent of all shootings resolution >

I think you’re reading too far into it >

Not at all. That's exactly what that person is trying to say without actually breaking cover as a gun nut. It's called a dog whistle in discourse >

I don’t think so but whatever. Speaking of “dog whistles”, I bet you call anyone who disagrees with you a “gun nut”. Much easier to label them as crazy than actually have to confront their ideas logically. 
Not that that person disagreed with you about anything, you just imagined that part. >

Why. Like why what is the point >

I don't know about this shit in germany; premeditated, luring them into an ambush, sounds fucking evil. But here in sweden fire fighters and ambulance personnel have been attacked sometimes, when going to heavily segregated areas. Heavy segregation leads to parallel societies and they see police, ambulance, firefighters as invading representatives from "outside". >

It's mostly our terrible integration system and 2nd and 3rd gen immigrants growing up disillusioned not feeling apart of the society >

Same as Belgium. We have the same ratio of immigrants from the same countries as our neighbors do, but the problems are way bigger. Who's to blame? >

Both sides. The people who refuse to integrate and the people who put up barriers for those who do want to integrate are why this happens. Honestly, we need to go back to the 90s strategy of education for the young and stressing the importance of interracial friendships and cooperation. Well that is my opinion anyways. >

Actually very few new barriers are put up, we just don't do anything at all to break the old ones down. Not much has changed in over half a century. Nobody's even talking about structural solutions. 
So "both sides" means a bunch of disillusioned immigrants vs every Belgian politician. >

In my country (Portugal) most of the firefighters/paramedics are volunteers. In my firehouse we had Devs, full time politicians, woodworkers, garbage men, plumbers, university teachers, docs, nurses, army men, people with all kinds of diplomas and humble fellas that didn't had an opportunity to study... we even have a national TV news reporter. It doesn't matter what you do. We are all the same. Flesh and bone. One big family of crazy women and men with a big heart that really care for eachother. 
This post left me very sad because I've felt this in person. I've meet countless monsters in 15 years of service. One guy even attempted an aggression with an axe during a wildfire against my "chief" for no reason at all. I've had people cursing me, threatening me and I've been punched by delirious guys and drunken fellas. When I think it's not worth it anymore, I think about my colleagues and all the good people I've helped along the path. We've been through a lot, that's what keep us going.
We are just humans who left our families at home, to look for everyone else's families. >

I can tell you it's basicially the same in the countryside in Austria. Without volunteers there would be basicially no fire department. But in the bigger cities like Vienna most fire men are paid.
I guess it's similar in Germany.
And it's absolutely horrendous when people get attacked who are only there to help others who are in danger or need of help. >

Wh-why would a country NOT form a fire department in all regions and pay for dangerous and necessary work? Why there is a need for volunteers in the first place? >

In Portugal is almost impossible to sustain it. The wildfires are a huge problem and sometimes we need thousands of people fighting at the same time in different regions. It's the same for every country with huge forests and hot summers. We  are making partnerships along with our Spanish border to help eachother since the wildfires are getting more regular and violent and the forests are abandoned due to the concentration of people in the big cities. Fire knows no border. >

There is a big political discussion in germany at the moment, because the majority of the perpetrators were 2nd or 3rd generation migrants. Reminds a bit of sweden >

Source for the perps being migrants? >

Wtf are you doing Germany? >

The kids do this in Dublin too but on Haloween not New years 
I’d say it’s pretty common in big cities in Europe >

It just sounds like kids doing pranks...they don't describe the 'violence' any more than "shot fireworks(and threw boxes) at trucks" which is just worse than throwing eggs at cars...it's stupid prank levels of violence.
Idk why they make it such a big deal (statistics on violence, protests, civil unrest) but don't describe it so I can judge for myself. >

I’m pretty sure fire crews are regularly attacked and hospitalised in Dublin on Haloween >

As an American this sounds insane >

That’s also insanity >

Those who hurt the healers have no honor >

What the hell is wrong with people >

What the fuck is wrong with people?? >

is that a rethoric question?