{"id":60586,"date":"2015-06-27T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60586"},"modified":"2015-06-27T08:30:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T12:30:24","slug":"germans-discuss-personal-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60586","title":{"rendered":"Germans discuss personal defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was looking for today’s feel good story, I found this one from Hamburg, Germany<\/a> about an elderly man who fended off two folks who tried to force their way into his home. He shot one of them and that feller died nearby. It’s much less common in Germany than it is in the United States, apparently. Earlier this month, another occurred in Hannover<\/a> and I guess Germans lost their collective shit over the death;<\/p>\n

This user fears conditions like in the US: “Homeowner shoots burglar! Hannover is Germany’s new America.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, no. The article continues;<\/p>\n

Such cases of armed self-defense are extremely rare in Germany, says Thomas Bliesner, President of the Crime Research Institute Lower Saxony (KFN). “And they are not acceptable, it’s the responsibility of the state to provide safety and order, and not for citizens to take up arms,” he told DW.<\/p>\n

But sometimes homeowners lose control, said Bliesner, a psychologist. “People feel highly threatened and alarmed if someone intrudes into their private home, onto their property.”<\/p>\n

In extensive interviews with victims of burglaries, the KFN found that people are shocked and stressed out by the breach of their privacy, and feel “massively threatened.” Last year, the number of burglaries across Germany rose by 1.8 percent to more than 152,000 cases.<\/p>\n

“And if strangers enter your territory uninvited, people can be extremely aggressive and prone to violence,” Bliesner says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m actually surprised that has to be explained to readers of Deutsche Welle. The article explains that Germans must have a real good reason to own a gun in the first place, and then it must be locked in a safe. It also says that only 15% of burglaries are solved in Germany.<\/p>\n

In the case of the elderly gentleman, in the first story, police have released him, but the fellow in Hannover is still being investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I was looking for today’s feel good story, I found this one from Hamburg, Germany about an elderly man who fended off two folks who tried to force their way into his home. He shot one of them and that feller died nearby. It’s much less common in Germany than it is in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-fLc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}