The German national media is fairly careful about discussing shootings, and it's awful rare that they will put such an episode on the 8PM nightly news. Regional media (newspapers and regional TV) might discuss a local shooting and the story leading up to it, at least giving you the basic story.
From this morning's news in my region (Hessen).....there's some story of a dispute between neighbors over a owner and a dog. It reached some point Saturday afternoon in Neuhof....the town involved....that some guy pulled a gun out and shot some gal.
All cops will say is that they were called, reacted, and the guy easily surrendered. They have custody of the guy and his gun. The gal? She's in stable condition and will survive.
There'll be some brief court appearance next week as the legal system goes over evidence and the police report. Charges? If the guy is lucky.....there'll only be two or three charges, and if convicted, I'd take a guess that he gets no more than six years in prison.
What you tend to notice after a while is that tempers tend to brew for years and years over some 'problem-neighbor', and people get frustrated that something can't be resolved in a timely manner. Some neighbor might have a dog that craps on street in front of a guy's house, and the dog-owner never cleans the mess (tidily picking up the dog-poop). This leads onto confrontation, and various accusations. No one says how this episode started, but it'll likely be fairly brief story that can be told in 90 seconds.
Having a gun pulled out in this type of mess? If you carefully review regional news.....there's three or four such episodes noted in an average year for Hessen. I suspect the other states see the same amount of activity. If you compared it against the US.....it'd be an awful small amount of episodes (statistically speaking).
The odd thing that will occur here....is that the authorities will have to make a decision about letting the guy bail himself out. If they allow it.....he goes back to the neighborhood and is within eyesight of the shot lady. His weapons will be confiscated but you can just anticipate maximum frustration from both parties over this episode.
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