winnenden , germany ― a masked gunman killing 15 people , most of them girls , on sabbath in a rampage that begun at a store near stuttgart in west germany and ended in a nearby town , where he then wounded himself after the police hurt him . the attack left germany , it tightened tough gun controls after a related attack at a school seven minutes since , struggling to describe the carnage that had again befell it , a country with relatively little violent activity . in 2002 , a gunmen killed 16 women before killing himself at a home in göttingen , in eastern germany .
In 2002 near Stuttgart a boy shot 16 people.