Massacre in a German School

[thomas kyhn rovsing hjørnet]

Sure, it's worrying--shows there is no absolute safety--but isn't it strange
that it doesn't happen more often, really? You should think that more people
would crack up and lose grip of themselves.
Perhaps it takes a rare combination of insanity and initiative.

Thomas


> The mere fact that something like this happens is worrying, and every
single
> case must be looked upon individually. To speak generally of a new quality
I
> don't think that the death toll or the question where it happens are the
> decisive factors. Even one of the hardest gun laws in the world could not
> prevent it, that's disturbing us.
>
> We are always pointing to America, to tv and pc games, we are not
surprised
> to see such things happening where people have easy access to guns, but
not
> "here" where you have to develop a certain amount of criminal energy,
where
> you must have criminal contacts and enough money to get a pumpgun. You
> cannot simply go to the next whorehouse, put 10.000 Euro on the table and
> ask your local pimp for it, like the movies are telling us.
>
> My father delivered his WW-2 Beretta to the police station when he moved
to
> an old-age home some weeks before his death, otherwise it would have been
> part of my heritage . . . I didn't even knew that he had had one at home,
> btw illegally from 1945 up to the 70s.
>
> "Nach Angaben des Innenministeriums waren 2001 in Deutschland 7,2
Millionen
> Waffen legal im Besitz von 2,3 Millionen Personen. Darunter waren 650.000
> Sportschützen und 350.000 Jäger. Bei den restlichen 1,3 Millionen
> Waffenbesitzern handelte es sich überwiegend um Erben von Waffen und
> Personen, deren Waffenbesitz im Zuge von zwei Amnestien in den siebziger
> Jahren legalisiert worden war. Die Zahl der Personen, die aus
> Sicherheitsgründen Waffen tragen dürfen, lag im vergangenen Jahr bei rund
> 15.000. Pro Jahr werden rund 2000 illegale Waffen beschlagnahmt."
> http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,193907,00.html
>
> Coincidentally the German Bundestag was talking about & passed a more
strict
> (ha ha, due to a *compromise* already weakened) gun law precisely at the
> time when the incident happened, and the notorious pro-hunter Christian
> Democrats did not take *off* some "nasty" commentaries against the
> government's proposals from their website yesterday. It goes without
saying
> that the "new" law is a joke:
>
> WaffRNeuRegG
> http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/14/077/1407758.pdf
>
> http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,193907,00.html
> http://www.cducsu.de/ <presse> <pressemitteilungen>
> 26. April 2002
> Norbert Geis, Hartmut Koschyk
> Waffenrecht: Rot-grün in letzter Minute bekehrt
> Vom Saulus zum Paulus mutiert
>
> I wonder what they say now. I bet it sounds a bit like Nunc Ives Le Spark.
>
> Otto
>
>
>