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In reply to the discussion: It's January 7th. We've have six mass shootings this year alone! Six. Gun Humpers are rejoicing [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)1. I posted this earlier about Germany in another thread, but here it is again.
https://www.thelocal.de/20160616/five-things-to-know-about-guns-in-germany-us-gun-control-laws
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To get a gun, Germans must first obtain a firearms ownership license (Waffenbesitzkarte) - and you may need a different one for each weapon you buy - or a license to carry (Waffenschein).
Applicants for a license must be at least 18 years old and undergo whats called a reliability check, which includes checking for criminal records, whether the person is an alcohol or drug addict, whether they have mental illness or any other attributes that might make them questionable to authorities.
The also have to pass a specialized knowledge test on guns and people younger than 25 applying for their first license must go through a psychiatric evaluation.
One must also prove a specific and approved need for the weapon, which is mainly limited to use by hunters, competitive marksmen, collectors and security workers - not for self-defence.
Once you have a license, youre also limited in the number of and kinds of guns you may own, depending on what kind of license you have: Fully automatic weapons are banned for all, while semiautomatic firearms are banned for anything other than hunting or competitive shooting...
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But even given Germanys strict gun policies, the country was still home to the fourth-highest number of legal guns per capita in 2013, falling behind just the United States, Switzerland and Finland...
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But even given the relatively high amount of guns in the country, Germany has one of the lowest rates of gun-related deaths each year, according to international GunPolicy.org research by the University of Sydney.
Over the past 20 years, crimes against life - which include murder as well as negligent manslaughter - that involve guns have dropped from 783 in 1995 to 130 in 2015, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).
Of those crimes last year, just 57 were intentional murders.
This of course pales in comparison to the rates in the US, where firearm homicides surpass 11,000 people killed each year or roughly 3.5 deaths per 100,000 people, according to GunPolicy.org.
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To get a gun, Germans must first obtain a firearms ownership license (Waffenbesitzkarte) - and you may need a different one for each weapon you buy - or a license to carry (Waffenschein).
Applicants for a license must be at least 18 years old and undergo whats called a reliability check, which includes checking for criminal records, whether the person is an alcohol or drug addict, whether they have mental illness or any other attributes that might make them questionable to authorities.
The also have to pass a specialized knowledge test on guns and people younger than 25 applying for their first license must go through a psychiatric evaluation.
One must also prove a specific and approved need for the weapon, which is mainly limited to use by hunters, competitive marksmen, collectors and security workers - not for self-defence.
Once you have a license, youre also limited in the number of and kinds of guns you may own, depending on what kind of license you have: Fully automatic weapons are banned for all, while semiautomatic firearms are banned for anything other than hunting or competitive shooting...
(snip)
But even given Germanys strict gun policies, the country was still home to the fourth-highest number of legal guns per capita in 2013, falling behind just the United States, Switzerland and Finland...
(snip)
But even given the relatively high amount of guns in the country, Germany has one of the lowest rates of gun-related deaths each year, according to international GunPolicy.org research by the University of Sydney.
Over the past 20 years, crimes against life - which include murder as well as negligent manslaughter - that involve guns have dropped from 783 in 1995 to 130 in 2015, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).
Of those crimes last year, just 57 were intentional murders.
This of course pales in comparison to the rates in the US, where firearm homicides surpass 11,000 people killed each year or roughly 3.5 deaths per 100,000 people, according to GunPolicy.org.
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It's January 7th. We've have six mass shootings this year alone! Six. Gun Humpers are rejoicing [View all]
Feeling the Bern
Jan 2017
OP
I posted this earlier about Germany in another thread, but here it is again.
Buckeye_Democrat
Jan 2017
#1
By the way, I have serious doubts that any meaningful regulations will happen...
Buckeye_Democrat
Jan 2017
#2
Hamilton called it mobocracy. Which is why he and Adams were so against giving the common man
Feeling the Bern
Jan 2017
#5
I'd like to hear your opinion in your own words. Who should, and who should not, be allowed to vote?
Marengo
Jan 2017
#25
This poster has posted on numerous occasions that the "Common man" should not have the right to vote
cwydro
Jan 2017
#19
I'm surprised to see an argument for disenfranchisement on DU. Perhaps he will clarify here.
Marengo
Jan 2017
#28
You may be right, so far silence. I wonder why? Embarrassed to explain his position in detail?
Marengo
Jan 2017
#35
We had the House, the Senate, and the Presidency from 2009-2011 and did nothing really
inwiththenew
Jan 2017
#22
Do you normally insult people like that? Your grasp of tact and courtesy is abysmal.
Feeling the Bern
Jan 2017
#34