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3/11/09

WSJ: Shooting Likely to Renew Gun Debate in Europe - by David Crawford

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Shooting Likely to Renew Gun Debate in Europe - by David Crawford

Wednesday's fatal shooting in a southern German school is likely to stoke fresh debate about gun control and public security in Europe, a continent less accustomed to the kind of random violence that shook Alabama a day before.Juergen Roth, a German-parliament advisor who helped prepared Germany's strict gun-control legislation in 2003, says German lawmakers across party lines believe Germany's gun laws are adequate, but need better enforcement. Germany's gun laws were strengthened in 2003, a year after a 19-year-old student killed 16 victims and himself at a school in Erfurt, Germany. The law requires gun owners to securely lock their weapons.

While less common than in the U.S., mass shootings are not unheard of in Europe -- where gun control laws are relatively tighter.

Note EU-Digest: Private ownership of guns needs to be tightened to the extreme in order to avoid drama's like we had today in Germany, and to give organized crime as little as possible flexibility in the use of firearms.

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