A major flaw with insisting that problems can be solved by passing laws is that when those woes fail to yield to legislation, there's a temptation to further fill the law books. We can see that in Germany, a country with strict weapons laws and tight identification requirements, where politicians are responding to an August attack at a festival in Solingen with proposals for knife controls and biometric surveillance. Given that the country's already restrictive laws didn't deter a terrorist from committing violence, it's not clear why more laws would finally do the trick. But regular Germans will certainly suffer the results.
"Leading German government politicians on Thursday came up with a package of security measures that aim to prevent a repeat of the deadly knife attack in the western city of Solingen last week, in which three died," German state-owned media outlet Deutsche Welle reported at the end of August.
