“Instead of criminalizing our hunters, you should rather talk about asylum seekers about knife attacks”

In today’s weapons law debate in parliament, FPÖ National Councilor Mag. Christian Ragger practiced sharp criticism of the advance of the Greens to take the tragic crime in Graz as an occasion for their ideological approach to legal gun ownership: “I do not know whether I should be shocked, strange or at the same time-from what they are doing here in the best. “, Ragger said in the direction of the Greens and coalition parties.

Ragger criticized the undifferentiated debate about the weapons law in the National Council. While the area would be thrown across the government, he referred to facts: “Yes, it is right-there are one and a half million gun owners in Austria, 800,000 have a category C weapon.” These legal hunting weapons are strictly regulated. Ragger, himself a hunter, emphasized: “I did six months of training, learned every week how to deal with your weapon – and take an exam.” The fact that hunters and supervisory hunters are now “thrown into a pot” and criminalized is unacceptable for him: “Read your own application, it is inside what you are doing here.”

Ragger accused the left part of the left-wing parties: “I would have liked the discussion to have held the discussion as when we were brutally stabbed in Villach on 15 years of Feber and five other people.

The statistics take a decline in firing stalks – knife attacks, on the other hand, increase dramatically, explained Ragger: “2014: 622 cases of use of firears. 2024: 352. Almost 50 percent fewer firearm offenses in ten years. In return: stimulant 2014: 1,996. 2024: 2,596. Knife lobby? ”Asked Ragger provocatively.

“You cannot assume that we go here and support your left -wing politics, which restricts our law -loving citizens and prohibits legal weapons. They have been unable to go into the country in migration policy for ten years. This actually led people to no longer feel safe. They should consider that when they talk about a weapon law,” said Ragger in conclusion.