{"id":6340,"date":"2015-12-21T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2015-12-31T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T14:13:58","slug":"germans-stock-up-on-weapons-for-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2015\/12\/21\/germans-stock-up-on-weapons-for-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans Stock Up on Weapons for Self-Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2015\/12\/21\/germans-stock-up-on-weapons-for-self-defense\/germany_self_defense\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6342\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6342\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/germany_self_defense.jpg\" alt=\"germany_self_defense\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/germany_self_defense.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/germany_self_defense-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The scramble to acquire weapons comes amid a nationwide spike in migrant-driven crime, including rapes of German women and girls on a shocking scale.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Germans Stock Up on Weapons for Self Defense<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/7088\/germany-weapons\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | December 21, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Germans, facing an influx of more than one million asylum seekers from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, are rushing to arm themselves.<\/p>\n<p>All across Germany, a country with some of the most stringent gun-control laws in Europe, demand is skyrocketing for non-lethal self-defense weapons, including pepper sprays, gas pistols, flare guns, electroshock weapons and animal repellants. Germans are also applying for weapons permits in record numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The scramble to acquire weapons comes amid a migrant-driven <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/6668\/germany-migrant-crime-wave\" target=\"_blank\">surge<\/a> in violent crimes \u2014 including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/6527\/migrants-rape-germany\" target=\"_blank\">rapes<\/a>, robberies and aggravated assaults \u2014 in cities and towns throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>German authorities, however, are going to great lengths to argue that the German citizenry\u2019s sudden interest in self-defense has nothing whatsoever to do with mass migration into the country, despite ample evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, German newspapers have published dozens of stories with headlines such as: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.welt.de\/wirtschaft\/article149324141\/Deutschland-hat-Angst-und-greift-zur-Waffe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Germany is Afraid \u2014 And Grabs for the Weapon<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/rtlnext.rtl.de\/cms\/deutschland-ruestet-auf-waffen-nachfrage-in-den-letzten-monaten-explodiert-2574733.html\" target=\"_blank\">Germans are Arming Themselves: The Demand for Weapons Explodes<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/bayern\/boom-immer-mehr-menschen-kaufen-eine-waffe-1.2769959\" target=\"_blank\">More and More People are Buying a Weapon<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburger-allgemeine.de\/noerdlingen\/Haende-hoch-id36334002.html\" target=\"_blank\">Security: Hands Up!<\/a>\u201d \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stimme.de\/heilbronn\/free\/sonstige-Das-Sicherheitsbeduerfnis-nimmt-zu;art132111,3530959\" target=\"_blank\">The Need for Security Increases<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daserste.de\/information\/politik-weltgeschehen\/mittagsmagazin\/sendung\/waffen-selbstschutz-pefferspray-gas-100.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boom in Weapons Stores<\/a>,\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.schwaebische.de\/region\/bayern_artikel,-Bayern-ruesten-auf-aus-Angst-vor-Fluechtlingen-_arid,10356244.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bavarians are Arming Themselves\u2014 Afraid of Refugees?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Germany\u2019s migration crisis exploded in August 2015, nationwide sales of pepper spray have jumped by 600%, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focus.de\/finanzen\/news\/unternehmen\/angst-in-der-fluechtlingskrise-600-prozent-mehr-nachfrage-pfefferspray-bundesweit-fast-ausverkauft_id_5067456.html\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to the German newsmagazine,<em> Focus<\/em>. Supplies of the product are now completely sold out in many parts of the country and additional stocks will not become available until 2016. \u201cManufacturers and distributors say the huge influx of foreigners in recent weeks has apparently frightened many people,\u201d <em>Focus<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/7088\/germany-weapons\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scramble to acquire weapons comes amid a nationwide spike in migrant-driven crime, including rapes of German women and girls on a shocking scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48],"tags":[127,179,181,195],"class_list":["post-6340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam-in-europe","tag-demographics-2","tag-germany","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-migration-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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