Quote Originally Posted by Stan View Post
Just my pesky self from this little corner of the earth

Did you read that link at Boing Boing ? Strange place for supporting information,
I actually read the Spiegel article when it was published. It's citing a official report. The numbers have been similar in earlier years.
We're a nation of 80+ million people for whom needing guns to solve anything is such an exception that it's almost a rounding error. We've found better ways even for dealing with violent criminals.
I consider this a success.

I will only say that the BPOL as well as the German Border Guard (we work and train with both)
Strange. Bundespolizei and Bundesgrenzschutz are the same, for the latter was renamed into the former several years ago. I assume you thought of some state police.