School shooting in Germany leaves 16 dead
 

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...612612,00.html

The season is opened.

Just some time earlier: shooting spree in Alabama:

http://www.welt.de/english-news/arti...ing-spree.html

Red it this morning, just horrible
I hope they catch him alive.:shifty:

HunterICX

Nope, committed suicide. I'd be interested to hear what type of solutions the German media has in relation to stopping incidents like this from happening again. I can sort of read news in German but I'm still learning and my speed of reading is pretty slow.

Edit. Correction, they are still looking for him. Some conflicting info in the media about the situation.

Bild now says the Police shot him.

http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/2009/03...winnenden.html

@Fin
Forget Bild! it's yellow press on lowest level.:down:

I always love it when 17 year olds have access to the weapons and amunitions of their parents.:nope:

At least 16 dead. Nice going, weapon fetishists.

Unbeliveable this stuff has to stop

Well it wont stop by taking away legal guns, these are mental issues, these people have used knives, spears, flamethrovers and bombs also.
I could kill ten in a mall with fork if i wanted to.:doh:

:nope:

How does a fetish have anything to do with this:06:

@HT
Actually massacres like this have always been carried out with firearms in Germany (at least I don't recall any massacre with more than a dozen fatals that was carried out with knives). Usually parents made their weapons accessable to their kids or the kids found out were the keys were. Without those weapons such deeds can't be done.

Damn, that totally sucks. Why allways schools.. :nope:
Wonder how he got his hands on the weapons in the first place.

As morbid as it is, I wonder on whom or what they (especially the media) try to pin it this time. As far as I remember, last time they tried to blame video games and stuff.

True, but then the parents are at least partially at fault for making the weapons accessible in one way or another.

Some say that the media should be quiet about these things, media coverage in a way glorifies these things. Not sure if that's true. I think the media together with the schools could act to prevent these things. Unfortunately it would probably take money and not everyone is willing to put more money into making schools better. Some politicians even have connections to weapon companies, I doubt they will see guns as a part of the problem.

How do you make weapons inaccessable for 17 year olds? If you store them in your house they will sooner or later find out how to get them.:damn:
It would take a safe in a bank that can only be opened with a personal key and a member of the bank`s staff together to really deny access to others.