In the aftermath of a recent attack in which a Syrian Islamic extremist wielding a knife murdered three innocent festival goers and wounded eight others, authorities in Germany are pushing forward with a plan to ban knives.
According to a report at nbcnews.com, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack by Issa Al H in the western German city of Solingen, a city of about 160,000 residents where a celebration of the city’s anniversary was taking place.
“Due to his radical Islamist beliefs, he decided to kill as many people as possible, who he considered to be non-believers, at the Solingen city festival on August 23, 2024,” the prosecutor’s office said in official statement. “There he stabbed festival visitors repeatedly and deliberately in the neck and upper body with a knife.”
The Islamic State-run Amaq news agency later said in a statement that the attacker targeted Christians and is a “soldier of the Islamic State” who was seeking “to avenge Muslims in Palestine and everywhere.”
Just a few days after the attack, Olaf Scholz, the country’s Social Democratic Party Chancellor, announced the proposal to ban knives at most public events.
“Knives are to be banned at most public events including markets and sport as well as on public transport, and there will be a blanket ban on flick knives,” the BBC reported in late August. “Foreigners ordered to leave the country will have to be deported more quickly and efficiently, And anyone facing a jail term for knife crime would face fast deportation.”
Germany has one of the strictest gun control policies worldwide. Of course, that is what kept festival goers disarmed during the attack and unable to teach the attacker the old adage about the fallacy of “bringing a knife to a gunfight.”
As the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) pointed out in a recent news item about the proposed knife legislation, when citizens aren’t allowed to protect themselves and have to rely on the government to do so, things don’t always work out well.
“Many Americans are likely to find the notion of knife controls absurd, and for good reason,” the report stated. “If officials can’t keep makeshift edged weapons out of prisons, how can a country like Germany expect to stop evildoers from getting their hands on knives?
“However, others might recognize the frustrating parallels between Germany’s recent knife control effort and America’s battle over gun control. When authorities fail in their duty to uphold the law—whether out of incompetence, lack of resources, or, as is increasingly the case, a conscious political decision—it’s often the law-abiding who end up facing new restrictions.”
The German knife ban proposal, of course, comes at the same time some U.S. knife laws are being overturned based on the 2022 Supreme Court ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. Just last week in Massachusetts, the Commonwealth’s Judicial Court, the highest court in the state, ruled that switchblades fall under the same Second Amendment protection as firearms do and cannot be banned by the state.
Geez a mass high school shooting by reportedly a 14 year old & TTAG reports THIS?!? I don’t give a rat’s butt about Deutchland disarming further😧
This event confirms that guns aren’t the problem.
in spite of the proliferation of guns I’m America, the deadliest mass murder event committed by a lone perpetrator was committed with a match and a pop bottle full of gasoline.
Everytown’s already dancing in the blood with an email soliciting donations.
cackles wasted no time politicizing the school shooting with anither scatterbrain word salad. It sounded like cackles did not know the murderous perp was just 14 years old. No news of anyone shooting at the perp or if he was one of the usual suspects or a relative of johnnyboy.
When Debbie says “the usual suspects” I assume she means “activist Democrats or the kids of activist Democrats,” not the racially-charged meaning.
Very convenient timing.
The esteemed three letter agency (sq) was tracking this kid since 2023, no difference from how they failed in Parkland. As far as Germany goes, it’s too late, they are toast from their immigration (invasion) policy.
As Bart Simpson might observe, “The shooter was known to the FBI.”
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Isn’t Solingen known for its knife manufacturing industry?
Very much so, and for hundreds of years. It used to be a major sword manufacturing location.
Yes, but curiously none of the reporting on the attack seems to have noted that.
The next thing you know, they’ll be wanting to ban large caliber, long barrelled, high capacity assault peni$e$ that can fire dozens of rounds without reloading.
Hmmm…
Regulate, ban and control an effectively infinite number of pointy objects that can be created by anyone at will or deport a couple hundred thousand individuals practicing a lifestyle that is incompatible with the native one?
Tough call. Better import a few hundred thousand more third world, bronze age militants just to be sure.
It is good for that old bureaucratic economy.
Yeah, that’ll fix the problem. Look to history for all the times this has worked…. Has nothing to do with the obvious elephant in the room. Nothing to see here.
I just bought some brass knuckles, several gravity-assisted knives, a pair of handcuffs, and a blackjack/sap — over the internet.
Do so while you can. Democrats would LOVE to ban all of that stuff.
Johhny LeBlanc,
All of that stuff (except for the handcuffs) has been banned in my state for over 80 years.
The ONLY item that I can “legally” carry in my state for self-defense is a handgun–and only then if I have a concealed carry license. All knives, daggers, stilettos, dirks, switchblades, ice picks, screwdrivers, axes, hatchets, swords, machetes, brass knuckles, blackjacks, clubs, baseball bats, ax handles, crowbars, etc. are forbidden. (Note: we can legally possess and use baseball bats, crowbars, axes, hatchets, and machetes for their intended uses.)
So, many/most such alternate improvised melee weapons are already banned for self-defense in several states–at least the very blue states.
Oh, I think I can legally carry a taser for self-defense–not sure if I need a concealed carry license for that as well.
Here in the US shoppers see a crazy woman walking around a Giant Eagle grocery with a knife and they say nothing, do nothing. Like the now blurred fathead walz looking azzhat who follows the woman out the door and goes on his merry way leaving the woman free to butcher a child in front of his unarmed and defenseless mother in the parking lot…For the unarmed shopper there’s an automotive product that will take the wind out of any perp’s sails but thanks to azzhats I won’t say what it is.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lyI2gVPIg7Y&feature=shared
Trunk Monkey?
Tire iron?
How about the Moo-slum ban? When with that ever occur to you?
Crusades or reconquesta.
wait till the jihadis figure out that trucks work amazingly well in crowds.
They already have (Nice, France?).
But it doesn’t divide their enemies as much as a spree shooting.
It’s even more stupid if you look at existing german law:
all folding knifes and fixed blades over 12cm (4.7in) are banned from carrying in public. They would have to be transpored in a sealed container like the oem packaging or a locked box. Also, ALL knifes are banned at public festivals.
They are now reducing the fixed blade length down to 6cm for general public places that aren’t protests or festivals where everything is already banned.
Despite none of the attacks happening with a legal 11cm knife (and murder also being kinda illegal) and most happening at places that were already complete ban zones like near train stations, public gatherings or political events.
They truely ran out of things to ban because everything already is. So it’s just getting more and more ridiculous.
Ban everything while ignoring the 800LB gorilla in the room. As always, it is not and never has been the hardware. Blade, firearm, gasoline and a road flare. It is always the human part of the action that is to blame for the acts. No matter the choice of weapon or tool. It is the human mind and human hand that wields it. Unless the various powers that be deal with the human part of the problem, nothing will change. Have a cult of violence, IE> a particular religion, deal with that group. Have a thug life death cult peddling dope and committing violent crimes to support or protect their crimes? Deal with that group. Sorry, Joe home owner, or citizen Jane are not the problem.
It’s never been a weapon problem. It’s always been a people problem.
There are how many legal machine guns in the USA and not one crime is committed a year with any of them.
Not to mention that after guns comes knives, then comes blunt objects, then objects that could be construed as sharp, at some point you’ll be walking around in your underwear unable to hold so much as a straw if these idiots get their way. Forks make wonderful stabby weapons, guess they are in line for removal as well.
Reality check, you can stab someone and kill them with a Bic pen if you want to. Even John Wick did it.
B,
The forces of evil in the Ruling Class want to reduce you to utter nothingness. These weapon bans are just the tip of the iceberg.
The evil cult of the Ruling Class are already trying ban all gasoline powered engines (including lawn/garden/landscaping equipment and even emergency electricity generators), gasoline and propane powered vehicles of course, plus natural gas cooking and even home heating. Of course that is not the end of their list. They also want to ban meat and force us to eat insects as the alternative. (That is not a joke, it is totally true.) And just in the last couple days I saw the first propaganda video telling us that refrigeration and air conditioning cause too much global warming so we must give up refrigeration. Instead of refrigerating produce, dairy, beverages (e.g. beer), and meats, the propaganda video told us that we don’t need such items refrigerated, we just need them “fresh”. Of course that would require going to the store every day to resupply your home. Never mind the fact that our electric cars would probably be discharged and unuseable. Of course there was no mention of how those refrigeration products are supposed to get to the store in-tact in the first place.
If you take a step back, it starts to become pretty clear that the evil cult of the Ruling Class simply wants to reduce the masses to as much misery and suffering as possible–or flat out dead and gone.
…while they continue using there three houses, 200 foot yachts, and private jets, because one 1200 square foot house, a canoe, and flying commercial ‘just doesn’t work for people like’ them.
Post just went to the black-hole.
And TTAG doesn’t censor?
All pigs fed and ready to fly.
Weapons are the vehicle, social and other media are the fuel. Without the ideas, encouragement, and knowledge of methods, much of these mass events would die out.
Partial bans on weapons do nothing. Total bans just effect what kind of weapon is used.
How to effect change in media is not a simple solution. Seems like it will take a change in a population’s world view.
Waiting for the Islamic extremist law to be proposed in the German parliament.
They will use pointed sticks then.
Give all Germans guns, they’ll sort it out!!!
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