{"id":67037,"date":"2016-07-24T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67037"},"modified":"2016-07-23T18:50:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T22:50:21","slug":"illegal-guns-are-a-problem-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67037","title":{"rendered":"Illegal guns are a problem in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I know, you’re shocked. The Chicago Tribune <\/a>reprints a Washington Post article on the subject.<\/p>\n

Germany has some of the world’s strictest gun laws. But that did not stop Friday’s Munich attacker — an 18-year-old dual Iranian-German national — from carrying out his shooting spree.<\/p>\n

The assailant most likely obtained his pistol illegally and did not have a license, German police officials said Saturday. That development could have worrisome implications for a country that has already exhausted most legal means to prevent such shooting sprees.<\/p>\n

“Germany has a good system of legal gun ownership, but illegal firearms pose a big problem,” said Nils Duquet, a weapons expert in Belgium who works for the Flemish Peace Institute. According to Duquet, there are millions of illegal weapons in Europe, but he said it is impossible to know exactly how many.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The author goes on to explain how Germany tightened gun laws after a couple of school shootings in 2002 and 2009, but all they really did, instead of making gun ownership illegal, was make citizens criminals. They hope that they prove their worth by proving that gun laws prevented the Munich gunman from purchasing a legal handgun and forced him to buy an illegal gun instead.<\/p>\n

An increasing number of terrorist attacks over the past two years were carried out with illegal pistols and semi-automatic rifles from Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

The Balkans pose a particular risk as a source of weapons, where millions of firearms that were used during the region’s wars are still believed to be in circulation. Although those weapons are older, they are still being smuggled and later sold in Western Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As long as there are laws and a profit to be made, criminals will find a way to break those laws, that’s why we call them criminals. I guess it’s hard to convince Leftists in the US that the same thing would happen in the US. If they were able to make all guns illegal in the morning, the only thing they would have accomplished is making citizens into victims of criminals, and making a whole new bunch of criminals.<\/p>\n

Canada is having the same problem. Here’s the story of an armed home invasion<\/a> in Ottawa yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I know, you’re shocked. The Chicago Tribune reprints a Washington Post article on the subject. … Illegal guns are a problem in Germany<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}