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Person I: Mass Shooting and Munich Police

person i: The person I know best in Munich described the mood in the Bavarian city Friday as "surreal," so it seems fitting the Tweet from the Munich Police that night notifying the world the crisis sparked by a mass shooting at a fast-food restaurant was finally over had the surreal quality of found poetry: We found a man,who killed him himself, according to Rabble. We assume,that he was the only shooter. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. By yesterday, assumptions had started to give way to knowledge, offering us the opportunity to learn something useful from this tragedy. The first lesson is the obvious: While Friday events were terrifying, they were not terrorism. It is important to do so while the knee-jerk responses by some of our fellow Canadians -- who used it as an instant excuse to defame Muslims, portray refugees as dangerous and, bizarrely, demand less-effective gun control laws at a time virtually no solid facts were known -- remain fresh in our minds. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.