And I thought we were the only over-reactionary country in Europe. After a horrific school shooting in March, the German government has announce it’s going to make it more difficult to obtain a gun. It’s also toying with making home gun safes mandatorily biometric – so you have to open them with your thumbprint and not a key.
OK, I can go with that. If weapons are harder to get hold of through legal means or through theft then nutjobs will find it more difficult to go on a rampage.
However, they’re also planning to ban all laser tag and paintball across the country as well. The ****? That’s about as mad as, say, banning all depictions of swastikas in a vain hope that everyone will forget about Hitler. Oh, wait – they did that as well.
Coming up next, if nobody stops them I’m sure, will be a complete ban on violent computer games. And films. Every re-released DVD in Germany which features a handgun will have digital jiggery-pokery performed on them to change the firearms into radios or something. Mr Spielberg will be minted from the royalties from that idea.
Seriously, it was an awful thing to happen to any community. But does anyone really think that banning paintball will have any effect at all?
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