According to Germany's Der Spiegel, German police shot only 85 bullets in all of 2011, a stark reminder that not every country is as gun-crazy as the U.S. of A. Most of those shots weren't even aimed anyone: "49 warning shots, 36 shots on suspects. 15 persons were injured, 6 were killed."
Technically, about 9,000 more shots were fired at sick and dangerous animals. (Germany, why do you kill your animals?) But since we couldn't watch the end of Old Yeller, we'll look the other way on those humanitarian shootings.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., where the population is little less than four times the size of Germany's, well, we can get to 85 in just one sitting, thank you very much. 84 shots fired at one murder suspect in Harlem, another 90 shot at one fleeing unarmed man in Los Angeles. And that was just April. So we bring you Germany's shot total in case you forgot about America shoots itself in the foot with its manic love of guns.
About the animals - most of those 9000 shots were fired to end the animals suffering after accidents with cars. Those are usually wild animals, not pets.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed that the new friendly multiculturalism works so well in making us all one. It is like, wild pigs are damaging the forest, so they shoot every animal in the forest, since they are all responsible. America is a very, very corrupt country, as anyone not American obviously knows. Not only are American police murder-happy gang members without any education or job skills, to even get a 'call back' to test for the job, you have to FAIL the IQ test, because they determined that 'smart' people would quit the job when they learned what it was. Yes, they would. Thank God for my guns. The one chance to SURVIVE being murdered by American police. Even when they get the 'wrong house' and slaughter an innocent family, there is no chance of them losing their jobs, much less going to jail.
ReplyDeleteThat's extreme, at least where I live. Do you belong to a militia?
DeleteWhen you live in a police state on the brink of collapse, owning firearms isn't "manic love" it's just common sense, unless you enjoy being a defenseless victim.
ReplyDeleteBecause you can out-shoot them?
DeleteApart from the guns issue (and it's a BIG issue), just how many hundreds of millions of hollow-point rounds have the US Militias just ordered??
ReplyDeleteMaybe just in time for the upcoming NATO Summit in Chicago (remember, "waste not, want not"!!)
When hollow points are outlawed, only DHS quasihumans will have hollow points.
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