Illegal guns are a problem in Germany
Yes, I know, you’re shocked. The Chicago Tribune reprints a Washington Post article on the subject.
Germany has some of the world’s strictest gun laws. But that did not stop Friday’s Munich attacker — an 18-year-old dual Iranian-German national — from carrying out his shooting spree.
The assailant most likely obtained his pistol illegally and did not have a license, German police officials said Saturday. That development could have worrisome implications for a country that has already exhausted most legal means to prevent such shooting sprees.
“Germany has a good system of legal gun ownership, but illegal firearms pose a big problem,” said Nils Duquet, a weapons expert in Belgium who works for the Flemish Peace Institute. According to Duquet, there are millions of illegal weapons in Europe, but he said it is impossible to know exactly how many.
The author goes on to explain how Germany tightened gun laws after a couple of school shootings in 2002 and 2009, but all they really did, instead of making gun ownership illegal, was make citizens criminals. They hope that they prove their worth by proving that gun laws prevented the Munich gunman from purchasing a legal handgun and forced him to buy an illegal gun instead.
An increasing number of terrorist attacks over the past two years were carried out with illegal pistols and semi-automatic rifles from Eastern Europe.
The Balkans pose a particular risk as a source of weapons, where millions of firearms that were used during the region’s wars are still believed to be in circulation. Although those weapons are older, they are still being smuggled and later sold in Western Europe.
As long as there are laws and a profit to be made, criminals will find a way to break those laws, that’s why we call them criminals. I guess it’s hard to convince Leftists in the US that the same thing would happen in the US. If they were able to make all guns illegal in the morning, the only thing they would have accomplished is making citizens into victims of criminals, and making a whole new bunch of criminals.
Canada is having the same problem. Here’s the story of an armed home invasion in Ottawa yesterday.
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But… but… you don’t really NEED any guns, do you? I mean, the police are there to protect you after you’re wounded or dead, y’know.
This makes my brain hurt. Every time there’s one of these ‘illegal gunnzz’ stories, the lack of common sense in the writers gives me a headache.
You mean when you ban something, you create a black market for that product? And criminal enterprises spring up to supply that demand?
Whoda thunk it?
If only we had actual examples from U.S. history of this phenomenon at play…
Not only create a market but kick the value of illegal guns in the ass really making it look like a profitable business to get in…..and besides that, they are all backroom untraceable guns, whereas legal guns are traceable…just shows you how FREAKING STUPID politicians are!!!
It’s easier to buy a gun in Germany than a schnitzel.
HUH? WHAT? You mean gun bans DON’T WORK? Gee whiz, that means that law-abiding people are made into conveniently unarmed VICTIMS dependent on the Government for protection like people are in places like Chicago, NY, NJ, DC and Mexico.
Liberals screech that people DON’T need guns for self defense because that’s what the Police are for. SO THEN we ought to ban the private ownership and use of Fire Extinguishers because that’s what Fire Departments are for!!!
So the law “forced him to use illegal guns instead.” In other words, the law did exactly jack shit to prevent this atrocity.
This eurofag at the Flemish Peace Institute (what is that, anyway? A francophone SPLC?) says that Germany has a “good system of gun ownership.” Obviously not, dickhead! The scumbag obviously had an easy enough time getting his hands on weapons and an assload of ammo, but nobody in the mall had the means to do anything except cower. That’s not a “good system,” that’s quietly setting the stage for massacres the next time some “misunderstood” islamoterrorist or other asshole decides to take out his inadequacies on innocent people. What laws are going to stop that? Will you make it illegal for people to go shopping, or meet with friends, or congregate in any way? Jawohl, mein fuhrer, ve vill arrest anyone who fails to maintain ze required 500 feet of separation from ze next citizen on ze sidevalk!
I prefer to call my guns undocumented not illegal in keeping with Leftist ideals
In every conversation I have with gun grabbers, I invariably ask them why 1–passing more laws doesn’t work, 2–why other nations wit far stricter gun laws still have these shootings, 3–why I should comply with laws criminals have no intention of following.
I usually get crickets or told to stop drinking the “Faux Snuuz Kool-aid”, then crickets.
Well, if I, a law abiding, hard working, tax paying, ordinary citizen, if I’m going to be made, with the stroke of a pen, into a criminal, I’m going to be the best criminal I can be.
It wouldn’t be the first time in history that happened. And there is no limit to what the aristocracy will limit, either. In the past, it has been illegal to: use the wrong entrance, carry a long staff, ride a horse, hunt for food, wear the wrong color or material… The list goes on. All with the Stoke of a pen and I’ll will toward others.
Be assured that you won’t be alone in your pursuit of criminal perfection. I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
Add another one to list of attacks in Germany.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/syrian-refugee-arrested-killing-woman-machete-germany-police-163921559.html