Munich shooting - Shooter bought gun in the Darknet

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/eil-amokschuetze-von-muenchen-besorgte-sich-waffe-im-darknet-1.3092518

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[127 Points] Psychozdelics:

This is why I've always been against markets allowing weapon listings. The community really doesn't need the sort of attention that comes from something like this. We already have well and truly enough LE attention.


[64 Points] earthmoonsun:

Another reason for LE to use Bitcoins and Tor as a scapegoat for all evil.


[31 Points] merryhexmas:

How do you deactivate or reactivate a gun? I tried yelling commands at my sidearm to activate but nothing happened.


[21 Points] octomarvel:

If a dude stabs a bunch of teens with a big ass knife that he bought on eBay, they don't just mention the Internet in general do they?

This is such a terrible introduction to the darknet for the mainstream people who are usually tech-clueless (i.e politicians). If the columbine shooters got their guns from the Internet, we might not have reddit today. If they decide to crackdown super hard, who knows what kind of future awesomeness they would also be halting?

I think things like this are just the motive (albeit false n ulterior) that government are looking for to crack the darknet wide open. It's a shame we cant point the finger at (insert onion address here) instead of blaming the entire darknet. Some of us are nice people.

Hate the player, not the game.

=)

Ps - it's a given that this is an atrocious act (humanity wise). It's relation to this sub tho is my main point of concern coz well, relativity.


[6 Points] MrOffica:

So they don't know shit about his motivation or anything but it's sure that the weapon was bought on the DNMs? Yeah...No


[5 Points] weakassedibles:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/24/europe/germany-munich-shooting/index.html

[Breaking news update at 9:19 a.m. ET] The Munich attacker appears to have illegally purchased the pistol used in his deadly rampage through the "dark web," Robert Heimberger, president of the Bavarian state criminal police office, said Sunday.


[5 Points] electricalnoise:

I would not be surprised to see more guns used in shootings come from the dark web. Even if they were brought to the scene by police. Gotta demonize this thing to get public support for further erosion of our rights and privacy.


[3 Points] drugsnboobs:

Idk why this is flaired as "speculation" given that Suddetusche Zeitung is a relatively reputable newspaper.


[4 Points] SirFoxx:

First, I suspect this is nothing more than propaganda to make the Darknet "evil" to the people(who don't use it). Second, it's not the gun that's the problem, it's the person.


[2 Points] bobbiggs69:

But wait a second, I thought if guns were illegal that meant that there wouldn't be anymore violence. Didn't this guy understand that there were laws against buying a gun and shooting people with it?


[2 Points] crawlerz2468:

What's a "deactivated" gun?


[2 Points] chill3willy:

Shouldn't the seller be complicit as well as the buyer?


[2 Points] imnotfrosty:

As a red-blooded Americunt who loves his firearms and grows weary of the gun control rhetoric in his country, it's odd to me that, while scouring German news and blogs that no journalist will dare to ask whether prohibition can protect the People.

Where there is a will, there is a way. In this case, it was a DNM. Laws are strictly for those who would abide -- and they prevent those who would protect themselves from doing so. Laws do not apply to those bent on doing harm.


[1 Points] None:

Well color me surprised. It was just a matter of time. Can we expect this to be linked to alphabay or is there a bigger weapon's market?


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] lyradunord:

:/ he also googled the shit out of rampage shootings apparently. Basically he was just all around crazy separate of which search engine he used.


[1 Points] princesspeachness:

Shocked! Gun and poison vendors are almost always LE or so I thought


[0 Points] None:

How about you post google translate of all the text. That would be helpful.


[0 Points] free-agent:

Did you guys hear? We are terrorists!


[-1 Points] kwebber321:

I have to do it, GUN CONTROL! lol!!