An 18-year-old German-Iranian believed to have acted alone killed nine people in a shooting spree with a pistol at a busy shopping center in Munich on Friday evening. This is just the latest in a spree of ‘mass shootings’ which have prompted increasingly zealous calls for ‘gun control’ from President Obama and his supporters. With 2 dead and 16 wounded in Chicago (which is among America’s most-gun-controlled cities), we thought some facts about acquiring and owning a gun in Germany (which has the “most stringent” rules around gun control in Europe) might be useful in the forthcoming debate about how this ‘mass shooting’ epidemic will be solved if we all just hand our guns over.
1. Germany has some of the “most stringent” rules around gun control in Europe, according to the U.S. Library of Congress. (https://www.loc.gov/law/help/firearms-control/germany.php#t1)
2. To own a gun in Germany, it is necessary to obtain a weapon licence for which applicants must generally be at least 18 years old and show they have they have a reason for needing a weapon.
3. German authorities can prohibit anyone who is dependent on drugs or alcohol or is mentally ill from obtaining a gun license. People under 25 have to undergo a psychiatric test. (https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/waffg_2002/BJNR397010002.html)
4. After a teenager shot 15 people dead at a school in the southwestern town of Winnenden in 2009, Germany tightened the rules around firearms. Among other things, authorities were given greater authority to check whether guns were stored securely when not in use, and can make spot checks. (http://www.bmi.bund.de/DE/Themen/Sicherheit/Waffenrecht/Aenderungen-Waff…)
5. Almost 5.5 million firearms are owned privately in Germany by around 1.4 million people, according to data from the German Firearms Register in early 2013. Germany’s population is about 82 million. (http://www.bva.bund.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldungen/DE/BVA/Sicherheit/NWR/20…)
6. There are up to 20 million illegal firearms in Germany, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung cited experts in Germany as saying in January. (http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/in-deutschland-gibt-es-bis-zu-…)
By comparison, website GunPolicy.org says between 270 million to 310 million legal and illegal firearms are owned by civilians in the United States, where the population is about 324 million. (http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states)
7. The Federal Criminal Police Office said in its 2015 annual report that the use of firearms had been on a downward trend for years. In 2015 there were 4,289 cases of people being threatened with firearms – the lowest level since 1993. There were 4,711 cases of people or things being shot at in 2015, it said. (file:///C:/Users/U0148792/Downloads/pks2015Jahrbuch.pdf)
8. There were 57 gun homicides in Germany in 2015, up from 42 the previous year – compared with 804 in 1995, according to website GunPolicy.org (http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/germany)
And yet… mass shootings still happen? Inconceivable! Nevertheless, we are sure ‘gun control’ in America makes much more sense because a defenseless populous will be somehow safer?
When there is no more 2nd amendment in the USA there will be at least 100 million illegal (undocumented) dreamer firearms in the country. They are already here and off the radar. As mentioned in the posting smuggled firearms and ammo will be available for a price just like drugs.
Keep in mind that there are millions of 3500 pound battering ram weapons in this country in the hands of almost everybody.
Looks like Germany could use some gun control advice from the experts in Chicago.
Yeah, and Detroit, too.
If you want a “Weapon of War” in Germany and you’re a Muslim just head on down to your local Mosque, They’ll fix you right up for your planed Jihad.
http://pamelageller.com/2016/06/war-grade-arsenal-of-weapons-confiscated-at-mosque-in-germany.html/
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/27/german-authorities-find-weapons-of-war-during-raid-near-radical-mosque/
http://madworldnews.com/france-raids-mosques/
They’re obviously planing to spread their “Religion of Peace” Ya think?
They should ban suicide vests.
Germany Hit Again: Blast “From Explosive Device” Kills 1, Injures 11 At Music Festival
by Tyler Durden
Jul 24, 2016 8:28 PM
Capping an awful week for Germany (and France), an explosion in the city of Ansbach, originally reported as a gas leak, has been confirmed as being caused by “an explosive device.” As The Telgraph reports, one person is dead (believed to be the bomber) and at least 11 more injured as the explosion occured shortly after 10pm outside a wine bar near the entrance to an open-air music festival, where there were some 2,500 people in attendance. The festival was shut down as a precaution.
With Germany already on high alert following the events in Reutlingen and Munich.
On Sunday, 21-year-old asylum-seeker from Syria killed a woman, reported to be pregnant, with a meat cleaver in the southern German town of Reutlingen.
Only two days earlier an 18-year-old man killed nine people in a shooting near a shopping centre in Munich, before turning the gun on himself.
One person has been killed and another 11 injured in an explosion at a cafe in the Bavarian city of Ansbach. (via The Telegraph)
A spokesman for the Bavarian Interior Ministry said the explosion was not an accident and appears to have been intentional.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann was en route to the site, the spokesman said.
The blast killed one person and injured 11 others in the Bavarian city, police confirmed late on Sunday. It said the cause of the blast was unknown.
The blast a at Eugene’s Wine Bar triggered a large-scale police operation involving police, rescue workers and one helicopter, Sky News said.
The blast was initially reported to have been caused by a gas leak.
News agency Dpa reports that an open-air concert nearby with some 2,500 in attendance was shut down as a precaution after the explosion.
The only question left now is how long before an otherwise patient German population react after three apparent mass attacks in one week?
Another attack already:
And another: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/syrian-kills-woman-in-germany-machete-attack/ar-BBuKJCv?li=BBnb4R7
@Stucky
You might love this one. No casualties, but interesting nonetheless:
http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/nachrichten-aus-rheinberg-xanten-alpen-und-sonsbeck/wueste-beschimpfungen-im-fkk-bereich-des-strandbads-xanten-id12031884.html
With examples of failed liberal policies world wide , the Unitied States will elect any politician that will call for implementing and strengthening those failed policies already failing in place here ? OK keep squeezing liberals eventually when you keep fucking with something you break it for good . America is broken and with just a little more effort we can finish the job so you all go ahead elect Hillary and we can have a SHIT HIT THE FAN event or elect the Donald and we can all go to work on Koch brothers farm till we have a SHIT HIT THE FAN EVENT . It should be obvious to any person with modest mental capacity gun control is nothing but window dressing for total population control . Guns in the hands of free Americans allow the citizen to maintain the ultimate veto and that sends any totalitarian liberal shitting there collective pants .