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Kimjy's avatar

Surely they mock us... Isn't mass stabbing a 'generally recognized purpose' at this point?

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Rikard's avatar

Why oh why is Germany copying the modest retarded knife-law in the world?

(The Swedish one in case you're wondering.)

This is 90% a copy of the current Swedish knife-law, in all its triumph of ignorance. Strictly speaking, there's no legal way to buy a knife at the store and take it home. The law is so loosely written and interpreted that /if/ police and prosecutor and court wants to nail you for a knife-crime, you're nailed. You could be a construction worker on the way home, having a shoddy blunt crap knife used for peeling electrical wiring on the floor of your car, that you've completely forgotten you dropped there weeks ago. If police stop you, and if they feel like it, then you are guilty of illegal possession of a knife.

If my son brings his chef's knifes home from work (which he does, the knifes cost a fortune) he is committing a crime. And on and on and on. Meanwhile, I can drop by the hardware-superstore in town and by a battery-powered nailgun and take it home. On public transport. Or a felling-axe. Or a chainsaw. Or a shovel. Or one of them claw-on-a-stick things you use for weeding. Or. . .

Our old law was much better. It only made a difference between assault and armed assault. Armed meant using something other than your body. Steel-toothed comb or broken bottle or a baseball bat mattered not, only the damage done to the victim.

I've carried a knife most every day of my life since I was 10, when grandpa gave me my first one - as per tradition! - and I've never, ever, even drawn a blade in a fight.

It's not the knife, or the gun, or whatever. It's the person.

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