How ironic. Some of the best knives in the world are made in Solingen - I have two right here, a bone handled "Springer" switchblade, and an antler handled skinning knife, tiny but razor sharp, up to the task for which it was made.
Thank God they are giving up on "gun violence". "Gun violence" is just not violent enough. It goes too fast. Knife violence is what will really grab folks' attention!
The problem is, no one is addressing the violence itself, electing instead to concentrate on the implement used in the violence. The violence is what needs to be addressed, for without violent people engaging in violence, the implements just lay there and do nothing at all by themselves... but no one is interested in addressing the violence, it appears.
I have to wonder - what was the race of this attacker? Middle Eastern, perhaps? They do seem to like their knifings. If he was instead a German born and bred, then was he perhaps an "incel"?
They need to find the root of the problem rather than just slapping legislative band-aids on the implements. When all guns and knives are made illegal, the violent will just switch to other implements and keep right on going - they'll take up clubs, or hammers, or ball point pens, or whatever else they can get their hands on to do their violence, as the recent knifings attest. They seem to be concentrated in countries where guns are either banned or heavily restricted. Once the knives are under the same bans and restrictions, we'll start hearing about screw driver violence, or club violence.
When are they going to get a handle on what makes violent people act violently? Addressing only the implements of violence means that they've caught it far too late, after it has been encouraged to progress too long, right into violence.
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Thank God they are giving up on "gun violence". "Gun violence" is just not violent enough. It goes too fast. Knife violence is what will really grab folks' attention!
The problem is, no one is addressing the violence itself, electing instead to concentrate on the implement used in the violence. The violence is what needs to be addressed, for without violent people engaging in violence, the implements just lay there and do nothing at all by themselves... but no one is interested in addressing the violence, it appears.
I have to wonder - what was the race of this attacker? Middle Eastern, perhaps? They do seem to like their knifings. If he was instead a German born and bred, then was he perhaps an "incel"?
They need to find the root of the problem rather than just slapping legislative band-aids on the implements. When all guns and knives are made illegal, the violent will just switch to other implements and keep right on going - they'll take up clubs, or hammers, or ball point pens, or whatever else they can get their hands on to do their violence, as the recent knifings attest. They seem to be concentrated in countries where guns are either banned or heavily restricted. Once the knives are under the same bans and restrictions, we'll start hearing about screw driver violence, or club violence.
When are they going to get a handle on what makes violent people act violently? Addressing only the implements of violence means that they've caught it far too late, after it has been encouraged to progress too long, right into violence.
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