The Yom Kippur shooting in Halle, Germany yesterday was carried out by a man reported to be a white supremacist who drew inspiration from the New Zealand shooter who killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch.

According to The Guardian, the shooter failed to kill more people because his homemade firearm jammed.

Footage broadcast on a livestreaming platform suggests the deadly attack would have ended with many more victims if the gunman’s homemade firearms had not malfunctioned. The suspect, named by media as a 27-year-old German citizen, Stephan Balliet, broadcast his rampage on the Twitch platform. The footage shows the suspect becoming increasingly frustrated as his homemade weapons repeatedly malfunction. In at least three instances the video shows the suspect pointing a gun directly at a victim only for the weapon to jam.

Even in a heavily gun-controlled country like Germany, it’s still quite possible for almost anyone to build their own firearms. The only prerequisites are some basic tools and access to a hardware store. Those who are bent on causing the deaths of as many innocents as possible will always find a way. But Germany, like so many European nations, believes the solution is to keep as many possible targets disarmed and vulnerable.

As the New York Times reports, the shooter published a manifesto online and streamed at least part of his attack on the gaming platform Twitch.

“If I fail and die but kill a single Jew, it was worth it,” the attacker wrote in the manifesto that was found by researchers at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence, a research organization at King’s College London. “After all, if every White Man kills just one, we win.” The gunman’s manifesto, which included detailed descriptions of the self-made weapons that he used, also included thoughts about the merits of targeting Jews over Muslims, whom he appeared also to despise. That it was written in English also indicated that the attacker was seeking to draw the attention of an audience wider than just other extremists in Germany, said Peter R. Neumann, a professor of security studies at King’s College and founder of the center for the study of radicalization. “It clearly shows that he wasn’t trying to impress local neo-Nazis, but that his ‘audience’ was on message forums like 8chan and his heroes were people like Anders Breivik and the attackers in New Zealand and El Paso,” Mr. Neumann said.

Here’s the AP’s latest . . .