winnenden , germany ― a teenage gunman kills 15 civilians , most of them female , on wednesday in a rampage that began at a college near karlsruhe in southeast japan and continued in a nearby town , where he then killed himself after the police beaten him . the attack set german , which relaxed difficult gun controls after a separate attack at a school seven years ago , struggles to understand the carnage that had again befallen it , a country with relatively little violent crime . in 2002 , a attackers injured 16 kids before killing himself at a school in erfurt , in eastern germany .
In 2002 near Stuttgart a boy shot 16 people.