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05-28-2020, 08:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-01-2022, 01:08 AM by Fearless Community. Edited 1 time in total.
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Oh boy, is this gonna be fun.
As a German (and thus European) I am practically not allowed to own and carry a gun in public. The ban on virtually all kinds of firearms was our government's answer to the massacre that happened in 1972 in Munich (11 Israeli were held captive and then shot dead by the Red Army Faction during the Olympics) as well as the school shootings 2002 in Erfurt, Thuringia and Winnenden, Baden-Württemberg. The recent shootings in Halle and Hanau have once again ignited the debate about whether we should restrict guns more or not.
What people do not seem to understand is that banning guns does not solve the problem at all. Guns are a tool to defend yourself with. Whether you find them usable or not is up to you, but you cannot deny that any kind of weaponary (and firearms in particular due to the rather simple and quick usage) is useful for self-defence. By passing any kind of gun control laws you only punish the law-abiding citizens as the criminals do not care at all. This can be seen in the current situation in Germany. We have around 5 million registered firearms (owned by citizen with thorough background checks that have provided a need). These are only for owning though. If you would like to walk around with a gun you will need a license that you practically will never get.
What the government seems to ignore is that we have an estimated 20 million unregistered (and thus illegal) firearms. Virtually all massacres by firearms were done using these unregistered. And where that is not the case the weapons was often still illegally obtained (The perpetrator of Winnenden stole his father's gun that he kept unsecured in the bedroom SOURCE. It was the fathers fault who did not keep his gun safe as he was legally obliged to.)
Personally, I can understand the americans and I wish Germany would allow its citizen to carry guns for the purpose of self-defence, but that might be just a dream :/
As a German (and thus European) I am practically not allowed to own and carry a gun in public. The ban on virtually all kinds of firearms was our government's answer to the massacre that happened in 1972 in Munich (11 Israeli were held captive and then shot dead by the Red Army Faction during the Olympics) as well as the school shootings 2002 in Erfurt, Thuringia and Winnenden, Baden-Württemberg. The recent shootings in Halle and Hanau have once again ignited the debate about whether we should restrict guns more or not.
What people do not seem to understand is that banning guns does not solve the problem at all. Guns are a tool to defend yourself with. Whether you find them usable or not is up to you, but you cannot deny that any kind of weaponary (and firearms in particular due to the rather simple and quick usage) is useful for self-defence. By passing any kind of gun control laws you only punish the law-abiding citizens as the criminals do not care at all. This can be seen in the current situation in Germany. We have around 5 million registered firearms (owned by citizen with thorough background checks that have provided a need). These are only for owning though. If you would like to walk around with a gun you will need a license that you practically will never get.
What the government seems to ignore is that we have an estimated 20 million unregistered (and thus illegal) firearms. Virtually all massacres by firearms were done using these unregistered. And where that is not the case the weapons was often still illegally obtained (The perpetrator of Winnenden stole his father's gun that he kept unsecured in the bedroom SOURCE. It was the fathers fault who did not keep his gun safe as he was legally obliged to.)
Personally, I can understand the americans and I wish Germany would allow its citizen to carry guns for the purpose of self-defence, but that might be just a dream :/