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Kind of a sad event. This guy had issues and he was messing around with a weapon in Germany...which the German cops won’t give you much discussion. I’m betting either drugs or alcohol were involved as well. Over the past three years...there have been a dozen similar incidents...although this is the only time the cops pulled out their weapons and had to shoot the guy. The interesting thing...these incidents all involve girlfriends or former girlfriends. Here in the Kaiserslautern area...we even had the Army wife (active duty)...who stabbed her alcoholic husband when he threatened her...which she will be facing some kind of assault charges apparently in German court.
Profoundly sad story: nobody wins in this one.
In any sizable group, someone’s going to go bonkers.
Prayers for everyone involved in this tragedy.
Very sad. The cops did what they had to do.
Gun control at work again. Germany has some of the toughest gun control laws in the world, so where did he get his rifle?
I am not military, but (since we arent’ in Switzerland), I can’t imagine that soldiers take their issue rifles home with them.
Sad but it appears the cops did the right thing.
Do they let police have guns in Germany? I thought they were basically eunics.
this allows to open the door to....germany is a quagmire....the US should pull its troops and withdraw a.s.a.p.!!!!! FDR & Truman lied.....US troops must die....
the lib/dems are all over juan mccain for his 100 year iraq comment...but never mention ~ germany/korea/bosnia & kosovo...oh wait...the lib/dems put the US troops in these places....so it does NOT count!!!!
I wonder how people in Germany are reacting to this?
Good for them. Sad that it had to be done.
***BERLIN (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier stationed in southern Germany was shot dead by police after threatening an ex-girlfriend and then going on the run armed with an assault rifle
***he threatened them with the semi-automatic rifle and was shot,***
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so, what was he armed with?
I lived in that region of Germany for most of 2007. The bases in that area (Bamberg, Schweinfurt, Wuerzburg) are involved in pre-deployment and post-deployment activities. More than likely I would assume that this was someone coming back from Iraq.
I’ve talked with a few of these guys over beers in various pubs during the evening. They can get quite rowdy. But they pump A LOT of money into the local economy. It will be sad when those bases close down.
Kinda off topic, but.....
A news story actually identifies the Division and Brigade of an Army soldier! Usually it's something like, "A U.S. Army soldier, who was in 1st Platoon....."
Says it all for me:
“Officers found the soldier several hundred meters from the woman’s house and tried to arrest him but he threatened them with the semi-automatic rifle and was shot, police said.”
Soldier or not ... he knows the rules of engagement.
Polizei do not f’ing play.
It’s sad if true. With all the lefties and their spinning especially against America and her troops...who the F knows for sure. Maybe the military will do their own investigation and we’ll know for sure this is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Very sad indeed..but the headline was a bit misleading. I was thinking, unprovoked attack for a second. PS: I’m not the thread title police, just an observation.