Well, look at that. Look at this knife.
It is a Swiss Army knife.
It will become illegal to carry. The Bundesrat initiative in the current move towards a Security concept for Germany after the terroristic knife assaults in Mannheim, Solingen and elsewhere claims a total ban on everything with an edge in city limits, public transport and public spaces, making Swiss Army knives illegal to carry.
I spare you the rant on how my great grandfather, my grandparents, grandaunt and granduncle, father, mother, uncle and aunt have been carrying knives as a family tradition for a documented 150 years. My great grandfather was assigned the order pour le mèrite in the Napoleonic war, my grandfather the iron cross for bravery and excellence and the order pour le mèrite. My granduncle was wearer of the communal seal for his merits in the resistance against the Nazi regime, my father was wearer of the Order of Federal Merits of the Federal Republic of Germany. I have been honorably mentioned by the county council for my merits for the county and assigned excellence during my communal service in a rescue and civil service organization. My mother and father literally saved more than hundred lives, I saved about fifty to date. Normally this would be nothing I would even talk about. Because it is my duty. I serve and protect, if I possibly can.
I have worked with kids since 1998, with the explicitly and conceptually stated goal of social integration, with difficult kids, a lot of them from migrant families. One of my most prominent goals always has been the prevention of violence. In order to achieve this, I have forged with them and introduced them to bushcraft and whittling and cooking, literature and science.
With the novelty knife laws, all this will be impossible, even illegal.
Even more, the assumption of innocence (benefit of doubt) is removed if the novelty law will be taking effect. The policies in the new Security orders are breaching International law (Dublin and Schengen treaties). Head Minister Of Homeland Security, Nancy Faeser, has been sued for attacks on democratic structures by one historian, Hubertus Knabe (https://hubertus-knabe.de/warum-ich-nancy-faeser-angezeigt-habe/ criticizing the removal of the assumption of innocence/benefit of doubt, which, with the novelty act, will take effect.
The Work Union of the National Police criticized Mrs. Faeser for the same reasons, only in a disciplinary context: https://www.dpolg-bundespolizei.de/aktuelles/news/nicht-mit-uns-frau-ministerin-finger-weg-von-rechtsstaatlichen-prinzipien/
There is a lot of more evidence that the novelty act is an assault on democratic structures, these are just examples.
Also, prominent law enforcement personnel and officials doubt the practicability of the novelty law. One official during a knife crime conference pointed out that the Offensive Weapon act in Germany derives directly from the Weapon laws in the Third Reich: https://www.bdk.de/der-bdk/was-wir-tun/aktuelles/brauchen-wir-ein-schaerferes-waffengesetz
The process of legislative has been sped up so that the law will maybe take effect as early as 20th September.
If you want to protest the law and are from Germany, you can use this AI-generated letter generator:
https://www.briefgenerator.de/
to flood the offices of the honorable members of parliament with protest. It is not for free, because of postal fees (the AI generates actual letters, not e-mails), but highly recommended to do so. Because we possibly witness the beginning of the Fourth Reich, and you know that I am normally rather careful with stating stuff like that.
If you are from outside Germany, especially if you own a knife Business, you can write as many letters as you possibly can in the time given to the Government of Germany protesting the cutback on your returns in business and the restrictions on your travels. The adress of the Ministry Of Homeland Security can be found here: https://www.bmi.bund.de/DE/service/anfahrt/bundeshaus/bundeshaus-node.html
I would really appreciate your work, the entire knife community in Germany would, and I sincerely hope you will not be grateful you at least tried, because it was the beginning of another world catastrophe. Because I have the really bad feeling that the ugly German rears his head again. Not because of some silly ban on silly knives I coincidentally am a bit too fond of, but because of the ugly picture on the whole.
Thank you, folks, and all the best.
