Pro-EU Leader Pushes for Gun Ban After Shooting. | A mass shooting has left 12 dead, including two children, in Cetinje, Montenegro, after 45-year-old Aco Martinović opened fire following a bar brawl.

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-06 00:40:27 | Updated at 2025-01-10 08:45:59 4 days ago

Pro-EU Leader Pushes for Gun Ban After Shooting. | A mass shooting has left 12 dead, including two children, in Cetinje, Montenegro, after 45-year-old Aco Martinović opened fire following a bar brawl.
The National Pulse ^ | Sunday, January 5, 2025 | Jack Montgomery

Posted on 01/05/2025 4:30:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

A mass shooting has left 12 dead, including two children, in Cetinje, Montenegro, after 45-year-old Aco Martinović opened fire following a bar brawl. Martinović killed family members, including his sister, the bar owner, and the bar owner’s nephews, before targeting multiple locations around the Balkan town. He killed himself as police closed in.

The shooting took place on Wednesday, with Martinović returning to the bar with a firearm following the brawl. His victims included seven men, three women, and two children. Four others were wounded.

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Prime Minister Milojko Spajić, of the pro-European Union party Europe Now, is exploiting the massacre to push for a ban on private gun ownership. However, there is mounting evidence that law enforcement failures enabled Martinović. He had previously been convicted of violent behavior and illegal weapons possession.

“Most of the victims were people he knew, his closest friends and relatives,” according to Police Commissioner Lazar Šćepanović. “This criminal act wasn’t planned or organized. It was unpredictable,” he claimed.

Montenegro has declared three days of national mourning, canceling New Year’s festivities.

The incident marks the second mass shooting in Cetinje in recent years. In August 2022, another gunman in the town killed 10 before being killed in a shootout with police and civilians.

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In the August, 2022 mass murder, it was an armed passerby who stopped the murder, a private party, not the police.

https://www.rferl.org/a/montenegro-new-gun-control-measures-cetinje-shooting-response/33263200.html

“The Action for Human Rights and the Center for Women’s Rights NGOs called for a thorough examination of the police response, saying that Cetinje had only a minimal police presence despite being home to 120 known organized crime members and having experienced a similar massacre in August 2022, when an attacker killed 10 people and wounded six before being killed by a passerby.”

2 posted on 01/05/2025 4:33:44 PM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Aco Martinović

Came over on the Mayflower.

3 posted on 01/05/2025 4:37:55 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)

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