Spectators leaving a stadium after a fireworks show began to stampede, killing 61 and injuring 49.
According to the linked article, “Most of those killed were between 8 and 15 years old.” 
I haven’t found anything that explained what actually caused the rush.
Clearly fireworks should be banned. Or stadiums. Or feet. And stampeding should be outlawed. Or something.
You’ve had some time to think about this post. How’s it feel? Feel good?
The gun-grabbers are exploiting the Newtown massacre for all it’s worth. Why not this one?
I’ll just put a little check next to “Yes.”
Because this is an accident, not a calculated act of aggression.
Once is an accident. This is the third stampede mass-casualty event in that country in 3 years.
one news report said at the end there were some small rapid noise making explosives that maybe some people mistook to be gun fire and a panic started
They should probably enact some stricter regulations about egress from buildings, like we do in the US with building codes. Yay government!
Just regulate fireworks so that no more than one bang per 10 seconds is allowed. Who needs more than that? Or ban fireworks completely. Will definitely reduce stampedes.
From the article:
They do seem prone to panic there. Perhaps their government will consider requiring a large number of exits anywhere there are large crowds gathered?
Either way… I don’t think they’d take kindly to the US government trying to intervene.
More vomitoriums!
Take it to Great Debates if you wish to debate anything…but stop hijacking this topic.
As said; the way that countries avoid this sort of thing is government regulation; building codes and other forms of crowd control that make places likely to attract crowds less prone to forming crushes that kill people. Your attempt to equate this to the gun control argument actually works as an argument for gun control.
So, that sent me to the Google and it came up with Cecil’s explanation: Were there really vomitoriums in ancient Rome? - The Straight Dope