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Germans React to the Colorado Massacre (Multiple Newspapers)


Jul 25, 2012 by

Since yesterday, Worldmeets.US has posted articles from two more German newspapers about the Colorado attacks.

1) The NRA: America’s ‘Deadliest’ Lobby (Die Tageszeitung, Germany)

Is there any sense to the logic of the National Rifle Association, which asserts ‘If private gun ownership were restricted, it would be more difficult for law-abiding citizens to obtain guns; but criminals would have no problem’? Columnist Bernd Pickert of Germany’s Die Tageszeitung dissects the NRA’s party line, and what he perceives as its flawed logic:

“It seems rather self-evident that it is the unrestricted access to these lethal instruments that produces criminals in the first place. If one is capable of simply walking into the nearest shop to secure everything needed for a mass-murder-in-waiting, the path from depression to blood-soaked headline is rendered easy.”

2) Movies Reflect Violence in Society – Not the Other Way Around (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany)

Are made-in-America films and video games causing the type of violence we have seen in places like Aurora, Columbine and Virginia Tech – or are these movies and games simply a reflection of what was already there? For Germany’s ‘Sueddeutsche Zeitung’, columnist Fritz Goettler questions the entire basis of the ongoing debate over gun violence.

“America will once again debate concerns and allegations that have grown up around violence in movies or video games, and the all-too-easy access to firearms. … The dispute could be more aggressive this time, amid the crisis atmosphere of a demoralized, polarized America. The film reflects the brutal truth: the exhibitionism of violence it displays is taken directly from society.”


READ MORE OF THE GLOBAL REACTION TO THE COLORADO SHOOTINGS AT WORLDMEETS.US, your most trusted translator and aggregator of foreign news and views about our nation.

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1 Comment

  1. StockBoyLA
    July 25, 2012 | 5:13 pm

    The conservatives I know who support the NRA and unrestricted gun ownership claim two things:

    1.) Gun-toting people would be a deterrent to a would-be criminal who would pull a gun.

    2.) If a guy pulls a gun and starts shooting, then if other people had guns, the deaths and injury caused by the first shooter would be minimized, since the gun-totoing citizens would take the guy out.

    Of course as Bernd Pickert points out (which conservatives don’t acknowledge) it’s because criminals have such easy access to guns that these mass shootings happen.

    Also people kill and injure other people during heated arguments. Not just because they are committing a robbery. People (including elementary students) have been carrying guns which accidentally discharged, killing and injuring themselves and/or others.

    People need to understand that guns were designed to kill… and anyone who owns a gun should treat it with respect.