Germany Clearly Needs More Vehicle Control - the Leipzig Attack

Gun control arguments are all tied up with keeping tools out of the hands of bad people. But bad people can use a lot of different tools. Germany’s Leipzig car attack: Vehicle rams into crowd; 2 dead, several injured. This happened on Tuesday.

Authorities confirmed that two German citizens were killed — a 63-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man. At least two people were seriously injured, while around 20 others suffered minor injuries, according to emergency services.

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Leipzig, Germany is in the state of Saxony. It is about 140 kilometers, or 87 miles, southwest of Berlin.

In this case the guy has a history of mental illness. German car-ramming suspect had mental health problems: reports

Authorities have not commented directly on his mental health but both the Bild daily [a German newspaper] and local broadcaster MDR reported that he had recently been receiving treatment in a psychiatric facility.

Bild said he had admitted himself to the centre, but was asked to leave on Sunday due to aggressive behaviour towards other patients.

If you want the Google Translate Bild Story, you can find it at this link.

This isn't the first vehicle attack in Germany, of course. There was the 2024 Christmas Market attack. Germany: Magdeburg Christmas market 1 year after attack

On December 20, 2024, six people were killed here — five women and a 9-year-old boy — and more than 300 were injured, some severely, when a man drove a vehicle into the crowds. His precise motives remain unclear.

And it isn't limited to Germany.

Nice France suffered a truck attack that killed 86 in 2016. 8 in France are convicted of their roles in a Bastille Day truck attack that killed 86

A French court on Tuesday convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice.

The judge's verdict followed 3 1/2 months of sometimes heart-wrenching testimony from survivors of the 2016 attack, who during the trial described the horrors and carnage they witnessed that Thursday summer night and the impact on their lives since.

Nice, France is about 133 kilometers, or 83 miles east of Marseille, or about 140 kilometers south of Turin, Italy.

On 21 November, 2021, a Christmas parade was attacked in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Judge sentences man to life in prison for Waukesha Christmas parade attack

A judge sentenced a man who killed six people and injured many others when he drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee to life in prison with no chance of release Wednesday, rejecting arguments from him and his family that mental illness drove him to do it.

Waukesha, Wisconsin is about 14 miles west of downtown Milwaukee.

This post started from a Colion Noir video: Germany’s Latest Crowd Attack Shows The Tool Was Never The Problem

To the Gun Controllers:

If your goal was actually saving lives, actually preventing innocent people from getting killed, you'd be having the exact same conversation about cars that you have about firearms.

The video is about 9 minutes.