German president calls for firmer gun laws at Winnenden memorial

During a moving ceremony remembering the victims of last year's school shooting in the town of Winnenden, President Horst Koehler on Thursday said Germany's gun laws were still too lenient. The German government had pledged to take measures to prevent access to dangerous weapons last year.

Last year on the eleventh of March, a 17-year-old former student stormed the Albertville Secondary School in Winnenden with his father's semi-automatic pistol, killing nine students and three teachers. After police arrived, the boy - known as Tim K. - fled the scene, hijacking a car and killing three more people before finally taking his own life.

Source: Deutche welle

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