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To: bentway who wrote (462813)	3/11/2009 9:17:10 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577554

A gunman went on a shooting spree in two neighboring south Alabama towns Tuesday, killing nine people before he shot himself at a metals plant, authorities said. I went into town yesterday and behind me on line at the Walmart checkout counter there stood a man of mid twenties with two boxes of 22 cal bullets of 550 units each. So i asked him what he was planning to do with them...and his answer? He was going boating...so I said that usually people are more likely to take a fishing pole when they go boating...he said that there are lots of things to shoot from a boat...true story. There are a lot of very dumb people around here that will kill creatures just for the sport of it...and they will teach their children to kill things just for the sport of it. Al

To: bentway who wrote (462813)	3/11/2009 10:07:36 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1577554

Teen gunman dead after killing 15 at German school Mar 11 08:53 AM US/Eastern By OLIVER SCHMALE WINNENDEN, Germany (AP) - 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 a car, killing at least 15 people before police shot him to death, state officials said. The teenager killed nine students, three teachers, and a passer-by outside Albertville high school in Winnenden, authorities said. Triggering a land and air manhunt, he hijacked a car, let the passengers go 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. Police have not yet identified the gunman. It was the nation's worst shooting since another teenage gunman killed 16 people and himself in another high school in 2002. "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." The gunman entered the school in the town 12 miles (20 kilometers) northeast of Stuttgart and opened fire, shooting at random, police said. Witnesses said students jumped from the windows of the school building. Concerned parents quickly swarmed around the school, which was evacuated. It was about four hours later that authorities said the gunman had been killed, but it was not immediately clear at what time police shot him. The teenager graduated last year from the school, which has 1,000 students. The German government was "deeply shocked and incensed about the appalling killing spree," Ulrich Wilhelm, a spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel, said in Berlin. In 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.