It couldn't happen here, until it did – now Germany has joined the mass killing club

The Guardian reports:

“It can’t happen here” – relief laced with smugness has been the standard German reaction to mass murder abroad, especially in the United States. Not here because our gun laws are among the toughest in the world. Nor do we have those dreadful banlieues ringing French cities where young men from Africa and the Middle East find neither jobs nor respect. Not here, with our perfect welfare state that takes care of each and all.

Now, it has happened here. Without assault weapons, as on a train in Bavaria where a young refugee went on a rampage with an ax from the corner hardware store. With a Glock automatic and 300 rounds in Munich on Friday, a massacre left 10 people dead including the assailant. Germany, once blissfully insulated, has now joined the “club” of mass murder extending from the US to France.

The failure of gun control laws in Germany.