Ban nail clippers rather than change the ideological dogmas of the left

@ElentirENG ES 8·25·2024 · 6:57 0

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States, the world has been experiencing a purely Kafkaesque situation.

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We have reached the extreme, for example, of not being able to board a plane if you have a nail clipper in your pocket, in addition to enduring exhaustive controls before boarding that are imposed on everyone, in order to avoid stigmatising certain risk groups in the name of diversity. Although plane hijackings have been resolved, the problem has moved to another area: our streets.

In Spain, the only European country with external borders with Africa (in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla) and which has been experiencing a large wave of illegal immigration from that continent, knife attacks soared by 35% between 2018 and 2022. In the areas of Spain that suffer the most immigration, the problem is really serious: in 2022, Madrid suffered 10 knife attacks a week.

On the other hand, there were 13,844 knife-related crimes in Germany in 2023, 1,489 more cases than the previous year. In June, Berlin's police chief acknowledged that most perpetrators of violence, including knife attacks, are migrants. To give you an idea, Berlin has 3.6 million inhabitants and one million foreign residents, so the proportion of violent crime perpetrators is higher among foreigners than among Germans. As much as some try to criminalize the mere statement of objective facts, this is not xenophobia, it is statistics.

The problem is serious, but the authorities are resorting to absurd ideas to deal with it. A few weeks ago, a German police union proposed exchanging knives for Netflix subscriptions, in an attempt to get these bladed weapons off the streets as quickly as possible. "The most popular pocket knife costs €17 while an annual Netflix subscription amounts to €170, making the exchange worthwhile for anyone willing to dispose of their knives", commented Zoltán Kottász, but obviously this price difference would lead to incentivizing the purchase of knives to get a Netflix account at 10% of their price.

This week it has emerged that Germany is now looking to toughen its knife ban. Until now, carrying knives with a blade measuring 12 centimetres or more in public is prohibited. If a new law is passed, carrying a knife measuring 6 centimetres or more would already be illegal. It seems unlikely that such a measure could serve to solve this serious problem. In fact, many attacks are carried out with large knives and even machetes, so the attackers seem little concerned about the fact that it is illegal to carry them in public.

Everything seems to indicate that the German authorities (the country is currently governed by the Social Democrats, but with the centrist CDU things were more or less the same), like those of other European countries, are willing to make any change that does not imply modifying their dogmas on immigration.

They will end up banning the mere fact of carrying a nail clipper rather than give in to these dogmas, which support the more than questionable idea that mass immigration is necessary and that therefore we must turn a blind eye to illegal immigration, which is exactly the same idea that the socialist government of Pedro Sánchez in Spain seems to support.

In the end, we European citizens not only have to suffer from a growing problem of insecurity, fuelled by this ever-increasing wave of illegal and massive immigration, but we are also faced with ever more restrictions that solve nothing, and which only serve to make the problem continue to grow. Among these restrictions is, by the way, the consideration of the debate on the effects of mass immigration as a taboo, as if we had to sacrifice our freedom of expression so that those responsible for this problem do not get angry simply because we remind them of their responsibility for it.

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Photo: Christoph Reichwein. Police deployed in Solingen, Germany, hours after the murder of three people by a Syrian migrant on Friday, August 23, 2024.