On March 11, a 17-year old teenage (Tim K.) killed 15 people (9 students, 3 teachers, a passer-by and himself) at his old school in Winnenden, Germany. He used a gun his dad legally owns (his dad is the president of a local gun club). Apparently was Tim K. known for having psychological problems.
I didn´t hear about that until I walked in my Spanish class room at the same day and everyone asked me, if I heard about it. Later that day my History teacher even gave me an article he found on the internet. How did that happen?
Of course I felt it was my duty as a German to find out what was really going on. So I did some research on German news pages, especially on Tagesschau and read some interesting things.
Everyone was totally shocked in the beginning. How and why did that happen? Why did no one help him before? You have to understand that Germany (smaller than Texas) is not used to his kind of event. People talk about violence at schools and how you could protect students and teachers better. But everyone tries to solve the big question: Why did it happen?
And like all the time, it was because he played video games every once in a while. That´s so typical German! Blame everything on video games and suggest a couple of times that it would be perfect if they were illegal.
But after just 5 days, no one even talks about it anymore. No one even wastes one more second thinking about the families of the shot students and Tim K. . I thing that is very sad. You can not just forget about it until it happens again.
Why did Tim K. do that? Was he just incredibly stupid? Another psycho, nothing special? Not worth thinking about? I was thinking about him a lot (I don´t say that he deserves that) but after a while it just starts making me mad at everything and everyone and I fell pointless.
People like Tim K. just stop doing that. If you do that, you show everyone how stupid you are and that´s most definitely not the purpose of your action.
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