Gun control fails in Germany
Eric F
After the German govt. raised the age of legal gun ownership from 18 to 21, a 17-year old got one anyway and killed a bunch of students...gun control doesn't work....the perps will alwayss get around the law and the normal people will be defenseless.
WINNENDEN, Germany – A 17-year-old gunman dressed in black opened fire at his former high school in southwestern Germany on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people before police shot him to death, state officials said.
Nine students and three teachers were among the dead, State Interior Minister Heribert Rech said.
It was Germany's worst shooting since another teenage gunman killed 16 people and himself in another high school in 2002.
Police said the former student at the school in Winnenden, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) northeast of Stuttgart, entered it at 9:30 a.m. and opened fire, shooting at random.
Witnesses said students jumped from the windows of the building after the gunman opened fire.
"He went into the school with a weapon and carried out a bloodbath," regional police chief Erwin Hetger said earlier. "I've never seen anything like this in my life."
Concerned parents quickly swarmed around the school, which was evacuated during the incident. About 1,000 children attend the school
After the attack, the suspect fled the Albertville high school toward the center of the town of 28,000, police said.
In 2002, 19-year-old Robert Steinhaeuser shot and killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two students and a police officer before turning his gun on himself in the Gutenberg high school in Erfurt.
Steinhaeuser, who had been expelled for forging a doctor's note, was a gun club member licensed to own weapons. The attack led Germany to raise the age for owning recreational firearms from 18 to 21.
Paul Schlagheck
Jeff A
have some pretty hefty weapons that would make an American SWAT team envious
Germany has some of the strictest laws on the books, and they still don't
work. People kill people, not guns. If guns aren't available, a knife will
do.
Jeff
-------Original Message-------
From: Paul Schlagheck
Date: 3/11/2009 1:09:07 PM
To: interb...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Gun control fails in Germany
What? The police have guns? What happened to leadership through example?
:)
Paul
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Eric F <bize...@yahoo.com> wrote:
doesn't work....the perps will alwayss get around the law and the normal
people will be defenseless.
WINNENDEN, Germany – A 17-year-old gunman dressed in black opened fire at
his former high school in southwestern Germany on Wednesday, killing at
least 15 people before police shot him to death, state officials said.
Nine students and three teachers were among the dead, State Interior
Minister Heribert Rech said.
It was Germany's worst shooting since another teenage gunman killed 16
people and himself in another high school in 2002.
Police said the former student at the school in Winnenden, about 12 miles