“Speaking in the town, Scholz called for stricter knife laws”
Yes because the problem is the knives keep stabbing everyone.
Uhu0451 on
Who’s gonna tell him that criminals don’t give a damn about laws? 🙄
Woman_Respecter69420 on
He should seek new immigration laws instead.
AlexZhyk on
I thought German law is already very prohibitive towards knives.
Couldn’t this be just “saying something” when German politics of last decades enabled degradation of social values in the country?
Late-Let-4221 on
People of UK, tell us, does banning knives help?
morbihann on
We had knives for a long time. The problem is ‘something’ changed in society.
SubTachyon on
I’m not usually one for arguing “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”, but unlike guns knives are like… The most basic cooking utensil, and completely impractical to try and control.
How about we talk instead about the completely broken immigration and asylum seeking system? The perpetrator was denied asylum and was to be deported, but the system failed to carry out that function, and then he was actually given protection from deportation? (Not sure why, or how exactly German laws work in this area)
Fix it, or AfD and other crazy Russian puppet parties will fix it for you.
Hyperbol3an4922 on
Here in Czechia knives are not regulated at all. And we are fine.
Mysterious-Hunt1897 on
I have another idea – Germany needs to ban killing of people. Sarcasm, just in case.
Oberst_Kawaii on
For context: The assailant was using a kitchen knife with a blade length of 15cm. This kind of utensil is already illegal to carry outside of the house. So we are dealing with something that is impossible to ban in general and already banned in the way the attacker used it.
This is also the third time within a year that Scholz has given the exact same speech after these types of crimes. The TV magazine Frontal arranged the timeline quite well.
And it’s not a secret that there exist only one group of people in Germany that does these things. When I heard about multiple people being stabbed in the neck there was not even the remotest doubt about the profile of the perpetrator before anything additional was revealed by the police.
Cromlok on
If there had been stricter knife laws, this fine gentleman who committed these murders, would have felt too guilty to leave his apartment, knowing he would be breaking the law and betraying the trust of the country that gave him shelter.
Even if he somehow found the courage to take the knife with him, it wouldn’t have been an issue. German street festivals are known for their strict security controls, so someone would have definitely found and confiscated this heinous tool that has been driving so many young men to go on wild stabbing sprees for years now.
The only explanation I can think of is that it might have something to do with how knives have been manufactured since 2015, but I’m sure the SPD and Greens are already investigating this lead.
Kanduriel on
The knife used in the attacks had a blade with a length of 15cm (5,9“). If you are out in public, you are not allowed to carry a knife with you if the blade is longer than 12 cm. So it was already forbidden.
MensMagna on
Scholz is very much what you would imagiine a corrupt politician from a bad 80s movie looks and acts like. He has no idea or is not willing to govern a country like germany and acts like a retard; but that is a theme with the entirety of the current Bundestag.
Whenever something bad happens in germany there is always weapons or video games or whatever unrelated thing to blame, but never the actual cause. All the politicians are cowards and he is no exception.
vdcsX on
Murder is pretty much banned already, but that law didn’t help at all, why would this do anything…
riscos3 on
If you can’t carry a knife in public longer than 6cm, does that means anyone buying a kitchen knife will have to order it online and have it delivered?
riscos3 on
I’m sure if I was a criminal planning to knife someone I would be REALLY reluctant to carry my knife knowing that it is 7cm… what kind of criminal who is planning to knife someone would care about getting charged for having a knife longer than 6cm when they are already getting charged with murder?
transpower85 on
These clowns can’t be real, can they? They would do literally ANYTHING rather than addressing the core problem. This is just depressing.
ggs77 on
It was already illegal to carry that knife at that place. What are you gonna do? Make it double-illegal??
Also, if somebody plans to murder a lot of people which carries a sentence of about 30 years, will he care about knife laws that have a fine of maybe 50 to 500 Euro?
abigbluebird on
So if those refugees start beating up people with their bare hands, shall we have laws on the closing of hands into a fist?
Prometheus-163546543 on
I think we should ban kitchen knives as well, since those are most commonly used in knife crime.
Then we should ban glass bottles, as they can be used as sharp objects.
But in no circumstances should we do anything about disincetivising people committing crime.
SpicyOmacka on
They will do literally anything except admit what the real problem is, let alone solve it.
Hiryu2point0 on
Scholzing again, level 100
Pellaeonthewingedleo on
Once again the usual problem in Germany, something happens and new stricter laws are demanded.
The problem is not the laws but that the existing laws can’t properly be implemented and controlled because there is not enough money to pay people to do that
420noscopeHan on
What a useless fool
Unaffected78 on
how about new deportation and closing borders laws? Or are we still stitching the fabric of cultures? Not enough of THIS??
greatersnek on
This is why this problem won’t go away, what is a knife law going to do against the very clear and poorly handled extremism?
Nothing
grafknives on
So you tell me that carring a knife to a festival was legal in Germany?
DOUBT
dreamon93 on
Stop Illegal Immigration, this has nothing to do with knife laws.
thisguyamirite86 on
Lmao sure it’s the knives fault and not due to immigration and dated Islamic culture
OkKnowledge2064 on
I hate our politicans
Young-Rider on
We Germans have a word for starting a stupid discussion that does not aim to fix the given problem: Scheindebatte.
Everybody knows that banning knives in public is just a symbolic move that does nothing to address the root cause: failed migration and integration policies. Unless we Germans have that debate, the fascists are going to intrumentalize the issues and tear society apart even more. We’ve seen eroding trust in state institutions for years, and that’s very dangerous to a democracy.
Not like the current government does enough about that, both the federal government and the states keep shoving the blame around. No interest in reform.
Gigigigaoo0 on
Bro we don’t need any goddamn knife laws, we need LESS CRIMINALS ON OUR STREETS!
happyhusband1992 on
I don’t understand, how would these new “knife laws” help? Isn’t carrying a knife in public already a felony?
no sarcasm
OsnaTengu on
Again, fighting symptoms
DLCSpider on
Things like these make my blood boil. The knife used was banned already. A new knife law does not help the victims, does not prevent future incidents and harms law abiding citizens. How incompetent can you be?
Bricvx on
I am terrified of where Western Europe is heading, including Germany.
An immigrant attacked with a knife? Ban EVERYONE from carrying knives. The attackers and terrorists are certainly concerned about bans.
Maybe we should look at immigrants? – well, you can’t do that.
So it will affect every righteous citizen who obeys the law and will not be able to have a damn penknife.
You know what, Germans, I will sacrifice myself. I will make a scandal with a teaspoon, your chancellor will ban them and you will stir with forks.
Orwell’s 1984, that’s all I can tell you.
2BeTheFlow on
Yeah! Please take away my 12cm tool.
Fucking hell, Solingen is a knife maker city. Why is not everybody equipped with a knifr and just stabbed back?
Why is OC Spray still illegal to use against Humans but CS is legal?
Weapons regulations in Germany is funny already, but lets go, make it even funnier and see crime will not get less as Sympton of disagreeing with other policies but gun laws…
CheiteCuOite on
why don’t they ban the entry of extremists in Germany!?
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“Speaking in the town, Scholz called for stricter knife laws”
Yes because the problem is the knives keep stabbing everyone.
Who’s gonna tell him that criminals don’t give a damn about laws? 🙄
He should seek new immigration laws instead.
I thought German law is already very prohibitive towards knives.
Couldn’t this be just “saying something” when German politics of last decades enabled degradation of social values in the country?
People of UK, tell us, does banning knives help?
We had knives for a long time. The problem is ‘something’ changed in society.
I’m not usually one for arguing “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”, but unlike guns knives are like… The most basic cooking utensil, and completely impractical to try and control.
How about we talk instead about the completely broken immigration and asylum seeking system? The perpetrator was denied asylum and was to be deported, but the system failed to carry out that function, and then he was actually given protection from deportation? (Not sure why, or how exactly German laws work in this area)
Fix it, or AfD and other crazy Russian puppet parties will fix it for you.
Here in Czechia knives are not regulated at all. And we are fine.
I have another idea – Germany needs to ban killing of people. Sarcasm, just in case.
For context: The assailant was using a kitchen knife with a blade length of 15cm. This kind of utensil is already illegal to carry outside of the house. So we are dealing with something that is impossible to ban in general and already banned in the way the attacker used it.
This is also the third time within a year that Scholz has given the exact same speech after these types of crimes. The TV magazine Frontal arranged the timeline quite well.
And it’s not a secret that there exist only one group of people in Germany that does these things. When I heard about multiple people being stabbed in the neck there was not even the remotest doubt about the profile of the perpetrator before anything additional was revealed by the police.
If there had been stricter knife laws, this fine gentleman who committed these murders, would have felt too guilty to leave his apartment, knowing he would be breaking the law and betraying the trust of the country that gave him shelter.
Even if he somehow found the courage to take the knife with him, it wouldn’t have been an issue. German street festivals are known for their strict security controls, so someone would have definitely found and confiscated this heinous tool that has been driving so many young men to go on wild stabbing sprees for years now.
The only explanation I can think of is that it might have something to do with how knives have been manufactured since 2015, but I’m sure the SPD and Greens are already investigating this lead.
The knife used in the attacks had a blade with a length of 15cm (5,9“). If you are out in public, you are not allowed to carry a knife with you if the blade is longer than 12 cm. So it was already forbidden.
Scholz is very much what you would imagiine a corrupt politician from a bad 80s movie looks and acts like. He has no idea or is not willing to govern a country like germany and acts like a retard; but that is a theme with the entirety of the current Bundestag.
Whenever something bad happens in germany there is always weapons or video games or whatever unrelated thing to blame, but never the actual cause. All the politicians are cowards and he is no exception.
Murder is pretty much banned already, but that law didn’t help at all, why would this do anything…
If you can’t carry a knife in public longer than 6cm, does that means anyone buying a kitchen knife will have to order it online and have it delivered?
I’m sure if I was a criminal planning to knife someone I would be REALLY reluctant to carry my knife knowing that it is 7cm… what kind of criminal who is planning to knife someone would care about getting charged for having a knife longer than 6cm when they are already getting charged with murder?
These clowns can’t be real, can they? They would do literally ANYTHING rather than addressing the core problem. This is just depressing.
It was already illegal to carry that knife at that place. What are you gonna do? Make it double-illegal??
Also, if somebody plans to murder a lot of people which carries a sentence of about 30 years, will he care about knife laws that have a fine of maybe 50 to 500 Euro?
So if those refugees start beating up people with their bare hands, shall we have laws on the closing of hands into a fist?
I think we should ban kitchen knives as well, since those are most commonly used in knife crime.
Then we should ban glass bottles, as they can be used as sharp objects.
But in no circumstances should we do anything about disincetivising people committing crime.
They will do literally anything except admit what the real problem is, let alone solve it.
Scholzing again, level 100
Once again the usual problem in Germany, something happens and new stricter laws are demanded.
The problem is not the laws but that the existing laws can’t properly be implemented and controlled because there is not enough money to pay people to do that
What a useless fool
how about new deportation and closing borders laws? Or are we still stitching the fabric of cultures? Not enough of THIS??
This is why this problem won’t go away, what is a knife law going to do against the very clear and poorly handled extremism?
Nothing
So you tell me that carring a knife to a festival was legal in Germany?
DOUBT
Stop Illegal Immigration, this has nothing to do with knife laws.
Lmao sure it’s the knives fault and not due to immigration and dated Islamic culture
I hate our politicans
We Germans have a word for starting a stupid discussion that does not aim to fix the given problem: Scheindebatte.
Everybody knows that banning knives in public is just a symbolic move that does nothing to address the root cause: failed migration and integration policies. Unless we Germans have that debate, the fascists are going to intrumentalize the issues and tear society apart even more. We’ve seen eroding trust in state institutions for years, and that’s very dangerous to a democracy.
Not like the current government does enough about that, both the federal government and the states keep shoving the blame around. No interest in reform.
Bro we don’t need any goddamn knife laws, we need LESS CRIMINALS ON OUR STREETS!
I don’t understand, how would these new “knife laws” help? Isn’t carrying a knife in public already a felony?
no sarcasm
Again, fighting symptoms
Things like these make my blood boil. The knife used was banned already. A new knife law does not help the victims, does not prevent future incidents and harms law abiding citizens. How incompetent can you be?
I am terrified of where Western Europe is heading, including Germany.
An immigrant attacked with a knife? Ban EVERYONE from carrying knives. The attackers and terrorists are certainly concerned about bans.
Maybe we should look at immigrants? – well, you can’t do that.
So it will affect every righteous citizen who obeys the law and will not be able to have a damn penknife.
You know what, Germans, I will sacrifice myself. I will make a scandal with a teaspoon, your chancellor will ban them and you will stir with forks.
Orwell’s 1984, that’s all I can tell you.
Yeah! Please take away my 12cm tool.
Fucking hell, Solingen is a knife maker city. Why is not everybody equipped with a knifr and just stabbed back?
Why is OC Spray still illegal to use against Humans but CS is legal?
Weapons regulations in Germany is funny already, but lets go, make it even funnier and see crime will not get less as Sympton of disagreeing with other policies but gun laws…
why don’t they ban the entry of extremists in Germany!?
Yes. That’s the problem. 🤡