German student kills 17

[Jaga]

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/11/AR2009031100563.html

Authorities said Tim Kretschmer, 17, entered the Albertville Realschule in the town of Winnenden about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, wearing black clothes and carrying a semiautomatic pistol. They said he fatally shot 12 people there -- all but one of them female -- before leaving the school. After killing a man he encountered outside the school grounds, he commandeered a vehicle and fled to a nearby town, officials said.

Authorities said the gunman abandoned the car while trying to avoid a police checkpoint about 20 miles away. They said he ran into a nearby Volkswagen dealership, where he killed a salesman and a customer, before shooting himself as police converged on the scene. The entire episode lasted nearly three hours.

"He clearly planned this," Dieter Schneider, a regional police official, said of the assault on the school. "He wanted a bloodbath."

Firearms are tightly regulated in Germany, but the country has been afflicted by other mass school shootings in the past several years.

[karl]

Jaga

This is as you have pointed out, a gradually elevating problem in Germany with this type of violence. This young man, with his entire life in-front of him, cut it short by his hand, in similar fashion of ending the lives of others. It was his decision to kill him self, but, not the decisions of the victims to die.

Fire arms are very well regulated, but, even with this, there is always a way to obtain a fire arm no matter the laws of any most country.

His father was in-deed a collector of fire-arms and kept them locked safely as lawfully required. He belonged to a shooting club and taught his son the skill of fire arm usage.

It is a debatable situation of rather or not, this skill combined with the young mans proficiency with both the use of fire-arms and air-pistols ,were of part and partial of this or not. But, from the boys history of shoot-outs with Friends in the forest {they wear protective clothing and eye-protection}. Perhaps this was to give the young man, the training of his inner senses, practice in shooting people.

It is a tragic and deplorable situation Jaga. For how are we as parents, to know what our children will do with the skills we provide to them to learn?

As a person, yes, I have long past provided my son this very skill of fire-arms, but for only for use as a hobby and/or hunting. My daughter hates fire-arms and as so, do not have them in her house.

I tend to believe, it is to the individual as to what is correct, or what is wrong.

Perhaps I am wrong in this thinking?

Karl