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German Gov To Ban Paintballing After Shooting

whoever57 writes "In response to the school shooting in March in which 16 people were killed, the German Government plans to ban all games in which players shoot at each other with pellets. The rationale for this is that 'paintball trivializes violence and risks lowering the threshold for committing violent acts.' Fines could be up to 5,000 euros."

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  1. Re:Haven't these people learned? by Alex+Belits · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What the fuck are you talking about?

    Stalin had nothing to do with Holocaust -- or any act of genocide during WWII. He was a major asshole, oppressive and often incompetent ruler, however he is at most responsible for 2 millions of politically motivated deaths. That's 2 millions too many, but nowhere at the scale of Hitler, and none of it had anything to do with genocide.

    Hitler, on the other hand, is solely responsible for WWII in Europe -- that's at least 70 millions dead, including at least 10 millions in outright genocide, 6 millions of them being Jewish.

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  2. Re:Really Germany? by malcomreynolds · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There was a boob on television almost every day for the last eight years (well at least until the end of January of this year).

  3. Re:Ah, yes. by jcnnghm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    killing anyone in the party who disagreed.

    As all great 20th century liberals did.

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