Shooter in Germany, killed...but let's look deeper.
German gun laws are among the most strict in the entire world. And what today, and frankly reality, shows is that making guns illegal or restricting their acquisition does NOT protect you from murderers. In fact, you have the exact same chance of being killed in Germany as in the United States.
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Take a look at illegal activity in Germany in 2010:
3,269 homicides (0.004% of the population)
179 done by gunshot, gun used as a threat in another 14 cases
Germany's population is just under 82 million at this time, resulting in roughly a Germans chance of being shot about 0.00021%
In the US:
14,748 homicides (0.004% of the population)
11,078 done by firearm
USA population at the time was roughly 309 million, meaning an Americans chance of being shot and killed was about 0.003%
As you can generally see the chance of being murdered are nearly identical in the US and Germany in 2010, so what does that mean? It means that gun laws have very little do do with anything, and people..even without firearms...still murder, and apparently at an alarmingly high rate. Germany had over 80% of their murders committed without a firearm. So the question is what is the goal of gun laws? If it is to make America safer, that is simply inaccurate by nearly all data as Nations with stringent gun laws don't have zero murder rates, heck, they have very similar murder rates with the United States.
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The German system of gun control is among the most stringent in Europe. It restricts the acquisition, possession, and carrying of firearms to those with a creditable need for a weapon. It bans fully automatic weapons and severely restricts the acquisition of other types of weapons. Compulsory liability insurance is required for anyone who is licensed to carry firearms.
In recent years, German gun-control law underwent several reforms that made it even more stringent. A new Weapons Act became effective in 2003 after a school shooting in the city of Erfurt in which a student killed sixteen persons. The new Act restricted the use of large caliber weapons by young people and strengthened requirements for the safe storage of firearms.
Another reform was enacted in 2009 in response to the massacre at Winnenden, in which an eighteen-year-old killed fifteen people in the course of a school shooting. This latest reform led to the creation of a federal gun register and to intense governmental monitoring of gun owners’ compliance with requirements for the safe storage of firearms. Pursuant to the reformed legislation, the authorities may at any time request access to the premises of any registered gun owner to monitor whether proper safe-storage procedures are being observed.
3,269 homicides (0.004% of the population)
179 done by gunshot, gun used as a threat in another 14 cases
Germany's population is just under 82 million at this time, resulting in roughly a Germans chance of being shot about 0.00021%
In the US:
14,748 homicides (0.004% of the population)
11,078 done by firearm
USA population at the time was roughly 309 million, meaning an Americans chance of being shot and killed was about 0.003%
As you can generally see the chance of being murdered are nearly identical in the US and Germany in 2010, so what does that mean? It means that gun laws have very little do do with anything, and people..even without firearms...still murder, and apparently at an alarmingly high rate. Germany had over 80% of their murders committed without a firearm. So the question is what is the goal of gun laws? If it is to make America safer, that is simply inaccurate by nearly all data as Nations with stringent gun laws don't have zero murder rates, heck, they have very similar murder rates with the United States.
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