German axe attack.

[thesummerqueen]

This is from my other German friend:

"Yep. Axe.
We don't arm our lunatics as well as you do over there.

As guns are not that easy to come by in germany, the crazies in our country use other means to inflict injury and death upon their victims.
Usually, they grab a knife, axe, hammer, steel pipe or something along those lines and go on their spree.

This, in turn, means there's usually less dead and injured people in the wake of such an "event", because those attacked always have a realistic chance to defend themselves or even fight back.
Sometimes, one of those mentally deranged chucklefucks gets hold of a gun and raises the death toll exponentially, like in the school shootings we had here.
For germans, that's not an argument to make access to guns easier, but harder.

This time, a 17 yr old from afghanistan attacked a chinese family from hong kong on a train.
The father and a friend fought back, shielding the rest of the group. 5 injured, 4 need emergency medical treatment.
The perp fled the train, was cornered by the police and shot as he attacked them.

The currently reported "Allahu Akbar"-part is disputed, most probably comes from a Tweet of an alleged eyewitness, and most of the reputable news outlets don't report it.
German authorities have a long history of trying to keep rumors at bay. If there is evidence for an islamistic background, they'll report it as such.
At this point, this is still unclear.

Currently it's reported that a mentally deranged 17yr old from afghanistan attacked people on a train. Last year, it was a mentally deranged 38yr german old from Wuerzburg who attacked people with a hammer, injuring two people lightly and was kept at bay with chairs until the police put him in jail.

Shit happens. Crazy people are everywhere. "