Posted on 06/24/2016 4:44:06 AM PDT by Cronos
An armed and masked man has been shot dead by German special police officers after storming a cinema complex in Viernheim, in the Hesse region.
The gunman had taken several hostages, all of whom escaped uninjured. A number of people inside the cinema were lightly injured when police deployed CS gas, reports said.
Police said they had no indication of the motives of the man who entered the Kinopolis complex at about 3pm local time, shortly after the start of the first screenings of the day.
..One of the hostages, identified by Bild as 16-year-old Almir Almilovic, was quoted as saying: “The perpetrator surprised us on the toilet. He hissed to us: ‘Lie down if you care for your lives!’ We were around 17 hostages.”
..German police’s special response unit closed off an area around the cinema complex shortly after the incident began. Initially, there were media reports that up to 50 people had been injured.
According to the press agency DPA, police believed the gunman was a “confused individual” rather than a terrorist.
Germany has one of the highest weapons-per-head rates in the world, but one of the lowest gun homicide rates in Europe: 0.05 per 100,000 people, compared with 3.34 in the US.
Incidents of gun crime, including the use of weapons to threaten people, have declined by almost a quarter since 2010, a trend that many experts put down to gun law changes after a string of high-profile shootings, including the killing of 15 people at a school in Winnenden near Stuttgart in March 2009.
Germany is the only country in the world where anyone under the age of 25 who applies for their first firearms licence must undergo a psychiatric evaluation with a trained counsellor, including personality and anger management tests.
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A Muslim would have killed a lot more people.
Defending terrorist tactics now are we?
Why didn't they give us the actual weapons-per-head ratio?
Could it be somebody is fudging the stats?
Was it Mark Twain who said, "There are lies, damned lies and then there are statistics."?
“Germany has one of the highest weapons-per-head rates in the world, but one of the lowest gun homicide rates in Europe: 0.05 per 100,000 people, compared with 3.34 in the US. “
This sentence is designed only to poke America in it’s eye.
“One of the highest / One of the lowest / Look at how bad America is”
And I’m sure that US gun homicides are 0.05 in the US among the white population as well. Factor in the black culture and there is your deficit.
Incidents of gun crime, including the use of weapons to threaten people, have declined by almost a quarter since 2010, a trend that many experts put down to gun law changes after a string of high-profile shootings, including the killing of 15 people at a school in Winnenden near Stuttgart in March 2009.
Germany is the only country in the world where anyone under the age of 25 who applies for their first firearms licence must undergo a psychiatric evaluation with a trained counsellor, including personality and anger management tests.
The high homicide rates are in LIBTARD controlled cities/counties/states with high restrictive gun control laws!..i.e. Chi-town, NYC, Detroit, Birmingham, Memphis. Which had 108 homicides so far this year UP 65%. Feral blacks for the most part.
Errors in spelling are the writers.
I don't think the perp was a muslim. If he'd been muslim there would have been carnage, not just a few unharmed hostages.
Almilovic has a Slavic ending but the root seems to be Arabic.
The name of the hostage is Bosnian.
“Was it Mark Twain who said, “There are lies, damned lies and then there are statistics.”?”
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Oct. 19, 1891.
“There are three degrees of untruth, a fib, a lie, and statistics.”
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lies.htm
SOP due to privacy laws.
That is the rule here in Germany and Switzerland - alleged perp is NEVER identified and any fotos are pixilated. No Conspiracy there.
Much obliged.
actually this name was Almir — whereas what you are referring to is “Amir” — and that’s Arabic for prince, yes. ARabic is also used by some Christians (Maronites, Syriacs etc)
Remove one key demographic from the US stats, and our violent crime and murder rates are lower then most of Europe.....
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