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Originally Posted by Pete
Link to a BBC story on the school shooting near Stuttgart.
Something like that's always a shock when it hits the airwaves. They had another incident just like that one in Erfurt, Germany in '02. Not to be cynical but when something like that happens in the U.S. it's not so much a suprise when you consider the amount of firearms that are here and that are so easily accessible. It's a little harder to own firearms in Europe but all it takes for a disaster like this one is a weapon and a defective mind. Guess it can happen anywhere. This story touched me a little because I've lived in both Stuttgart and Erfurt.
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Alot of the germans were simply stunned. They all talked about how that 02 incident was a mirror of this one. It was approx 20 min away from us. The boy was 17 and his father was a sports shooter- and owned the same amount of guns. He had over 300 rounds and went into two classrooms and did failure drills on every single WOMAN in the room. He only shot 1 boy and that wasnt planned supposidly. Very very sick individual. We wondered if this was done with a pistol (incredible accuracy if so) but turns out it was an M4 style rifle. Seems like a crazy situation with no guns in germany and all...