According to Der Spiegel, German police fired 85 bullets in all of 2011. “49 were warning shots, 36 shots on suspects. 15 persons were injured, 6 were killed.” [ Boing Boing ]. In the US this April, 84 shots were fired at a single murder suspect in Harlem.

Bill Maher: “… There were death threats to critics who panned Batman. A movie! Half this country thinks everything can be solved by threats, guns, bombing … And btw, fact that “serious” critics treat a fucking Batman movie as a profound comment on the human condition says a lot about our culture …