NRA To Present Its Annual "YOUTH KILLING AWARD" To German Kid!
Posthumously.

"This is big!" said an unidentified NRA member.

"Ich ein der poopenfarter ja mies unnerpans," added another European
member.

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"Police slay teen gunman who killed 15 in Germany"

By OLIVER SCHMALE, Associated Press Writer Oliver Schmale, Associated
Press Writer

WINNENDEN, Germany – A 17-year-old gunman dressed in black opened fire
at his former high school in southwestern Germany on Wednesday then
fled in a hijacked car, killing at least 15 people before police shot
him to death, state officials said.

The gunman entered the school in Winnenden and opened fire, shooting
at random, police said. He killed nine students, three teachers and a
passer-by outside the building, officials said.

"He went into the school with a weapon and carried out a bloodbath,"
said regional police chief Erwin Hetger. "I've never seen anything
like this in my life."

Triggering a land and air manhunt, the gunman hijacked a car, freed
the driver and drove about 25 miles (40 kilometers) before police
found him. When confronted, he killed two bystanders in a shootout
with police before he was slain, Baden Wuerttemburg governor Guenther
Oettinger said. Two officers were seriously injured, but there was no
immediate information on other casualties.

Four hours after the shootings began, police announced the teenager's
death.

Police have identified the gunman only as Tim K, who graduated last
year from the school of about 1,000 students.

In their hunt for him, police searched his parents' home in a nearby
town. The suspect's father, who is a member of a local gun club, had
16 firearms and one was missing, police said.

Authorities have said the weapon was not a rifle, but have otherwise
only called it a "high caliber" firearm.

Police had said that a 10th student died of injuries in a local
hospital, but spokesman Klaus Hinderer later changed that report
saying that it was wrong and blaming an internal police
"communications error."

The death toll brings the killing close to that of Germany's worst
school shooting.

In the 2002, 19-year-old Robert Steinhaeuser shot and killed 12
teachers, a secretary, two students and a police officer before
turning his gun on himself in the Gutenberg high school in Erfurt, in
eastern Germany.

Steinhaeuser, who had been expelled for forging a doctor's note, was a
gun club member licensed to own weapons. The attack led Germany to
raise the age for owning recreational firearms from 18 to 21.

German Chancellor Angel Merkel called the shooting "a horrific crime."

"It is hard to put into words what happened today, but our sadness and
sympathy goes out to the victims' families," Merkel said at a news
conference.

The European Parliament, meeting in Strasbourg, France, stood in
silence for a minute, to honor the victims.

"It is our task as responsible politicians in the European Union and,
indeed, all the member states to do our utmost that such deeds can be
prevented," said EU assembly president Hans-Gert Pottering, a German.

(This version CORRECTS number dead to 16 including the gunman, police
say report of 17th death was error.)

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