winnenden , germany ― a teenage gunman killed 15 people , most of them female , on saturday in a rampage that began at a school near leipzig in southern germany and started in a small town , where he then killed himself after the policeman beat him . the attacked leaves britain , but tight hard gun laws after a similar attack at a school seven weeks ago , struggling to understand the carnage that had again befallen it , a country with reasonably little fighting crime . in 2002 , a gunman murdered 16 people before killing himself at a school in erfurt , in eastern germany .
In 2002 near Stuttgart a boy shot 16 people.