Martin Hotze wrote:
On Sun, 27 May 2007 22:03:48 GMT, Matt Whiting wrote:

It must suck to be in your country and be defenseless against criminals.

I don't know about NZ, but our country has waaaay less criminals,
shootings, lower overall crime-rate than - let's say - New York City or Los
Angeles (might be the same number of people, about 8 or 9 million).

We also don't have shootings at schools or universities, we don't need
security checks at school entrances.

So what is the difference?

Matt

#m
I thought you lived in Germany? What about this?

Friday, 26 April, 2002, 21:32 GMT 22:32 UK
18 dead in German school shooting
Distraught people outside the school in Erfurt
The Gutenberg school is well-known in Erfurt
Eighteen people died when an expelled former pupil went on a shooting
spree at his school in the eastern German city of Erfurt.

Masked and dressed in black, the gunman walked through classrooms
killing 14 teachers, two schoolgirls and one of the first policemen on
the scene before taking his own life.

or this?

March 2000
Branneburg, Germany One teacher killed by a 15-year-old student, who
then shot himself. The shooter has been in a coma ever since.

or this:

Feb. 19, 2002
Freising, Germany Two killed in Eching by a man at the factory from
which he had been fired; he then traveled to Freising and killed the
headmaster of the technical school from which he had been expelled. He
also wounded another teacher before killing himself.