Talk about people, not weapons

An 18-year-old pupil went on a rampage with an axe and petrol bombs at a school in the southern German town of Ansbach on Thursday, injuring eight fellow pupils and a teacher. The left-liberal daily Frankfurter Rundschau comments on the ensuing political discussion about reforming weapon laws: "After [a pupil in Winnenden ran amok] the necessary discussion about the weapons law culminated in the absurd demand that a game like paintball be forbidden - as if young men being able to unload aggression in a simulation of military fighting didn't actually have a preventive effect. Among other things the Ansbach attack makes one thing very clear: when a frustrated or even mentally ill person sees the only way out in violence against others he will make use of any murder weapon at his disposal. This means the discussion about weapons should be peripheral. Young people must be at the centre of it."

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