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Student who killed teacher calls for weapons ban
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Student who killed teacher, wounded another in 1997 calls for weapons ban
Fri May 3, 4:59 AM ET
VIENNA, Austria - A man who fatally shot a teacher and seriously wounded another instructor in 1997 is calling for a sweeping weapons ban that would keep guns out of private hands in Austria, a magazine reported Friday.
The gunman, identified only as Helmut Z., told the weekly "News" magazine that he never would have been able to gun down the two teachers at his school "if I hadn't had such easy access to my father's gun."
Helmut Z. was 15 at the time of the May 1997 shooting spree, which killed 48-year-old teacher Annemarie Kral. After slaying Kral, the teen-age gunman calmly reloaded and wounded another teacher, Gertrude Winkler, with a single shot.
During his trial in Wiener Neustadt, south of Vienna, the gunman admitted he had used the gun in an attempt to rape a classmate, and shot the teachers when they intervened to protect the girl. He was sentenced to eight years in prison but was released on parole last September.
Z. told "News" it was "a fortunate coincidence" that he was able to get his hands on his father's pistol, and he called for a total ban on private weapons possession in Austria, which already has strict gun laws.
"Availability means murder," he told the magazine, reacting to last week's school shooting in Erfurt, Germany, where a 19-year-old expelled student fatally shot 16 people at his school before taking his own life.
"Hands off weapons - no student should have access to them, and in my experience, neither should any private individual," he said. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020503/ap_wo_en_ge/austria_school_gunman_1
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Fri May 3, 4:59 AM ET
VIENNA, Austria - A man who fatally shot a teacher and seriously wounded another instructor in 1997 is calling for a sweeping weapons ban that would keep guns out of private hands in Austria, a magazine reported Friday.
The gunman, identified only as Helmut Z., told the weekly "News" magazine that he never would have been able to gun down the two teachers at his school "if I hadn't had such easy access to my father's gun."
Helmut Z. was 15 at the time of the May 1997 shooting spree, which killed 48-year-old teacher Annemarie Kral. After slaying Kral, the teen-age gunman calmly reloaded and wounded another teacher, Gertrude Winkler, with a single shot.
During his trial in Wiener Neustadt, south of Vienna, the gunman admitted he had used the gun in an attempt to rape a classmate, and shot the teachers when they intervened to protect the girl. He was sentenced to eight years in prison but was released on parole last September.
Z. told "News" it was "a fortunate coincidence" that he was able to get his hands on his father's pistol, and he called for a total ban on private weapons possession in Austria, which already has strict gun laws.
"Availability means murder," he told the magazine, reacting to last week's school shooting in Erfurt, Germany, where a 19-year-old expelled student fatally shot 16 people at his school before taking his own life.
"Hands off weapons - no student should have access to them, and in my experience, neither should any private individual," he said. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020503/ap_wo_en_ge/austria_school_gunman_1
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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