Germans Scramble To Buy Weapons Amid Nationwide Spike In Migrant-Driven Crime

Gatestone Institute ^ | 12/21/2015 | by Soeren Kern

[archy]

A real gun for the Fatherland

Well, that's one possibility. However, it lacks the panache of a single-action Colt or Kar98k Mauser. Or the efficiency of certain other tools....

[archy]

I lived there for two different months once. Yes, the Turks even back then were the main criminals.

As they were when I lived in the Munich area for a year in 1967.

[RetiredArmy]

Self inflicted wound. It is only going to be worse and worse and worse. Coming to Amerika soon. Buy now and get plenty of ammo.

[x]

... or they could just wait until the government starts handing out Panzerfausts like they did last time ...

[5thGenTexan]

“Gun laws make us safer.”

Yeah, right.

[CPT Clay]

They are getting it, there may be hope for Europe yet.

[GOPsterinMA]

Shocker...

[HomerBohn]

Too bad that these Islamists will be spread throughout the nation thanks to Gauleiter Merkel. This will have a drastic effect on the lives of Germans and will soon destroy the picturesque towns and villages.

The tourist trade will dry up quickly.

[uncitizen]

Hmm how bout that?

[Billthedrill]

Mayer added that there is a growing sense within German society that the state cannot adequately protect its citizens and therefore they have to better protect themselves.

The danger isn't that the state can't protect its citizens, it's that it won't. When this is so, then the fundamental relationship between citizen and state has broken down. Simply denying it works for the media but not on a street level.

Others deny that the rush to self-defense has anything to do with migrants at all. They blame a variety of different factors, including the early darkness associated with the end of daylight savings time, the jihadist attacks in Paris (which occurred in November, three months after sales of self-defense weapons began to spike), and the need for protection from wild wolves in parts of northern Germany.

These don't seem very plausible. As near as I've been able to observe it gets dark earlier right about this time of year all over the entire northern hemisphere and has so for a very long time. It's probably global climate change. And wolves? Really? Enough to account for a 600% increase in weapons sales? That's a lot of wolves. I was quite unaware that northern Germany was overrun with them.