78% of Germans want to BAN private gun ownership.

[Franzl]

http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article3379242/78-Prozent-fuer-Waffenverbot-in-Privathaushalten.html#vote_3360376

Here we go again, typical German reaction to the school shooting of last week.

God do I get sick of Germans' love of passing laws to solve everything.

That's how it always goes here. If a kid dies after drinking too much alcohol at a party...what do Germans do? Pass laws that will "prevent such a thing from happening again"....like raising the drinking age to 18...or whatever.

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78 Prozent für Waffenverbot in Privathaushalten

Nach dem Amoklauf von Winnenden glaubt eine große Mehrheit der Deutschen, Gewehre und Pistolen sollten generell aus privaten Wohnungen und Wohnhäusern verbannte werden.
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And in addition to this, some German states are also considering a ban on "killer games". (not that I like killer games...and I've NEVER played them....but that doesn't mean we should (or COULD) keep them out of the public's hands.

GOD MAKE IT STOP!!!

[Franzl]

"private gun ownership" is not actually what the poll says... not quite. Not that I necessarily disagree with what your saying, btw.

no insult intended either, of course. I'm 50% German, after all. This reaction just gets me angry, that's all

[Franzl]

I'm more interested in the psychological part here, and the willingness to propose "bans" on anything as a result of a single event.

The gun control part isn't of very much interest to me, although I obviously oppose the majority in this poll.

[Franzl]

I find it funny to listen to the scapegoating crowd. According to them, violence didn't exist before guns and TVs were invented.

Why does the US which has far more easily available guns, far more such cases?

Which European nation has 350 million citizens? And can nations like Russia and China give us reliable data on internal crime?

The US has far more cases than Europe as a whole. And while data on internal crime is inacurrate in Russia and China, such events are extraordinary enough, so that information is likely reliable.

Again, our population is much larger and more ethnically diverse per state in our nation. Sure you have many ethnic groups in Europe but they aren't mixed in such close quarters as they are here.

The population of Europe in total is quite a bit bigger than in the U.S., but still, gun related crime is still probably double the European rate in the U.S.

(just a guess, I'm not quoting any specific numbers)