Another Deadly Attack in Germany is Tragic Proof Gun Control is Not Going to Stop All Brutal Murders

The nation of Germany is on high alert after being rocked by a string of terror attacks in recent days.

The first came on Monday, when a 17-year-old Afghan man with ties to the Islamic State yielded an axe on a crowded train in the state of Bavaria, injuring several passengers before he was fatally shot by police:

German train axe attack: Pictures emerge showing blood-spattered floor at scene of attack http://bit.ly/2acepTT http://pic.twitter.com/md68TdcXwB

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 18, 2016

Then, on Friday, a mass shooting took place at a mall in nearby Munich which claimed the lives of nine people and injured dozens more:

Multiple Deaths in German Mass Shooting as Police Suspect Terror Attack

…only to be followed by a second shooting later that day at a train station also in Munich:

Reports of a second shooting at Marienplatz station #Munich http://bit.ly/2ap94M0

— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 22, 2016

Now, reports are spreading of a machete attack by a Syrian refugee near Stuttgart, which left one dead and two others injured:

UPDATE on #Reutlingen machete attack:
-Woman killed
-Occured outside kebab shop
-Suspect 21-year-old Syrian refugee http://pic.twitter.com/adJgC7u9Bj

— Alison Arkin (@Cronikeys) July 24, 2016

An eyewitness noted that:

“The attacker was completely out of his mind. He ran with the machete behind a police patrol car.”

The BBC reports that a massive blast killed a suicide bomber and injured 12 people in Ansbach, Germany on Sunday night. It is yet another heinous way that murderers can strike civilians, and especially disarmed ones:

They said a man – “according to our current knowledge the perpetrator” – had died in the blast.

The intended target was not clear but about 2,000 people have been evacuated from a nearby open-air music festival, the Bavarian interior ministry said.

It is third attack in the state of Bavaria in the past week.

The striking thing about these deadly attacks, besides their geographical location, is that only two of them involved firearms.

In fact, far fewer murders in the United States are being committed today by rifles than they are knives, blunt objects or other personal weapons.

Image Credit: Screenshot/FBI.gov

Yet Democrats in Congress remain set in their push for additional gun control laws nationwide, including a renewed assault weapons ban.

As this chart from the Crime Prevention Research Center show, having an assault weapons ban doesn’t necessarily decrease the death count in mass shootings.

Image Credit: Screenshot/CrimeResearch.org

Many European countries – including Norway and France – have assault weapons bans, yet also have higher death rates from mass publish shootings than the United States.

The sad truth is that mass murders are going to happen worldwide, regardless of what type of weapon the perpetrator wants to use. And that could be an assault weapon, a bomb, or even a machete.

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