{"id":90752,"date":"2023-03-13T14:18:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T19:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90752"},"modified":"2023-03-13T14:18:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T19:18:14","slug":"90752","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90752","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

German gun laws make anything in the U.S. pale in comparison. This was the case even 30+ years ago when I was stationed there.
\nThus we see that the gun grabbers will never<\/em> be satisfied.<\/p>\n

“Lax gun laws” blamed for Hamburg shooting<\/a><\/p>\n

I recently took a look at gun control laws in Germany. It was because of the Hamburg shooting. I knew there would be a discussion of the gun laws on the books as well as calls for new ones and I wanted to be familiar with what\u2019s already in place.<\/p>\n

What they\u2019ve got is pretty extensive, too. Mandatory storage laws, psychological evaluations before purchasing a gun, a licensing process that requires applicants to show a necessity for buying a gun, and age restrictions.<\/p>\n

Frankly, they\u2019ve got more rules in place than any state in the US could ever hope to get through.<\/p>\n

Their gun laws are anything but lax.<\/p>\n

Yet, in the wake of the Hamburg shooting, many are\u00a0blaming lax gun laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gun laws in Germany, where weapon ownership is among the highest in Europe, could be further tightened after\u00a0last week\u2019s mass shooting<\/a>\u00a0in which seven people, including an unborn child, were killed in a Jehovah\u2019s Witness hall in Hamburg.<\/p>\n

The attack has thrown up the perennial question of whether the various parts of the country\u2019s federal system are working together, and strengthened the hand of those in the governing coalition who are seeking stronger gun controls\u2026<\/p>\n

But people are now asking why the specialist force is not deployed every day. And in a country whose fragmented political system is often a cause for complaint, a reckoning is coming over Hamburg\u2019s weapons control authority\u2019s response to an anonymous letter sent two months ago about [the gunman\u2019s] mental health.<\/p>\n

On 7 February, officers visited [the killer] at his flat in west Hamburg but gave him just a verbal warning after finding a loose bullet on top of the safe in which his gun and ammunition were supposed to be stored. The city\u2019s health services seem to have had no involvement in the unannounced visit, despite the red flags of his book and the anonymous letter, which had suggested that [he] was suffering from a psychological disorder but refused to seek treatment.<\/p>\n

A member of Hamburg\u2019s Hanseatic Gun Club, [he] had held a weapons licence since December last year, and the awarding of this permit is a focus of attention as the people of Hamburg prepare to bury their dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So once again, we see a mass shooting in an area with extensive gun control laws already on the books.<\/p>\n

Sure, many are focusing on a single round sitting on top of the gun safe, but let\u2019s be honest here. That\u2019s not the issue.<\/strong>\u00a0The issue was, in part, that German gun control didn\u2019t stop the Hamburg shooting. Gun control doesn\u2019t do that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What it does is make it so literally none of the people in that building had the means to resist this maniac.<\/p>\n

Additionally, for all the talk of mental health, let\u2019s remember that the shooter had to undergo a mental health screening in order to get his license. He passed that.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m not saying that people can\u2019t develop mental health issues afterward. Not at all. What I\u2019m saying is that this is one of those measures we\u2019re told\u00a0we<\/em>\u00a0need here in the US, yet this is why it\u2019s ineffective. The truth is many people can pass such a screening despite probably not being mentally well.<\/p>\n

Germany has pretty extensive gun laws, some of the most extensive on the planet short of outright bans on anything more powerful than a blowgun.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t the problem.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll never solve the issue of mass shootings so long as people keep pretending guns are the issue, rather than people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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