This is exactly what the Netanyahu cabinet and Hamas strategy is: kill as many civilians as possible.

I read somewhere years ago in a article/commentary that the entire German police force fired less bullets in an entire year during execution of their duties (meaning it excludes the training on range etc) than a single US police officer in a single shootout with one lone gunman. The number quoted was something like 38 bullets for the ENTIRE German police force. A country of over 80mil with a gun-culture stemming from hunting & sport.

The entire US is just bonkers.

The US has more knife stabbings per capita too.

the gun is kind of media, while the real reason is hatred and extreme polarisation their politicians and celebrities created.

I lived in the US for nearly twenty years. What shook me the most was how brutal multiple killings had very limited news coverage and were usually forgotten the next day - unless a celebrity was involved. If families organised to call for any form of gun control, the killings were "fake" and the protestors were "paid crisis actors".

I have to compare this to hearing about the Dunblane massacre while driving to work. I had to pull over, process what I was hearing, turn off the radio, dry my eyes and drive on when I felt safe to do so.

I did not expect to become blasé to three or four fatal shootings every week in my local area.

@randahl

Take it up with the FBI.

Interesting to hear this from Germany, of all places. Within your parents' lifetime, your country's "professionals" murdered around six million Jews, about three million of them citizens of Poland. In total, more than five million Polish citizens were killed under German occupation: Polish Jews and roughly two million ethnic Poles, most of them Catholics. Add to that about 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war, millions of Soviet civilians, hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti, and 250,000–300,000 people with disabilities.
Germany built thousands of camps, including extermination camps with gas chambers and crematoria, and sold the victims' hair to industry for textiles and mattresses. All of this was done by paid, trained, uniformed professionals. So leaving the guns to the state is not, in itself, proof of a civilised country.
And that memory is fading. In a Claims Conference survey, 12% of Germans aged 18–29 had never heard of the Holocaust, and about 40% of them didn't know that six million Jews were murdered. In a 2024 Ipsos poll, 59% of Germans believed most Holocaust victims came from Germany, and only 28% named Poland. In the 2025 MEMO study, more Germans wanted to "draw a line" under the Nazi past (38%) than opposed it (37%), and in a Die Zeit poll 28% said the Nazi era "also had its good sides".

Only for discusion...

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What a curious thing to say.

@randahl

I have used guns, have been a gun safety instructor, and won't disclose if I own guns. Still, you can handle guns safely. I lived few years in the US (totally unrelated to guns), and encountered some pretty lunatic folks there. That society is way, way different from Europe, and it can be quite scary.

Gun violence in the U.S. is a symptom of much greater problems. Our Canadian neighbors have plenty of guns but they don't have the gun violence problem we have.

> Talking to maniacs is not helpful. Firebombing their cities is.

Strange, seeing you advocate a fire-bombing of Washington. Personally I tend to spare the civilian collateral damage, because, it's not really the maniacs' cities.

The only way to win is not to play...

Yes. How do they resist tyranny?

And it shows that the US is a poor and underdeveloped country. I'm living in Germany 67 yrs old and never had to use or own a gun. We pay professionals to do it. We call them police, military, Forest ranger and body guard.

And the are a small number of gun athletes, using them in sports. Professionals like Olympic biathlets are from the above groups too and paid users too.

Amateurs are rare. People can afford to let professionals do the shooting.