Idk who Rapinoe is BUT I wish I could own a gun legally. It's so extremely strict here. Like, to get a gun owner permit you have to do a total strip tease of your personal data and life circumstances. And after you done that you can't just go and buy a gun. The specific type of firearm has to be listed on your permit, for each new type of gun you need an extra process. At the same FUCKING time, police has been severely under staffed for YEARS, cases are being prioritized, the police are not arriving in time to prevent crimes. I have no fucking way to feel safe when walking outside. Especially when in a foreign city. The public broadcasters demonize shooting trainings, in their documentaries everyone who goes to a shooting range(even those who don't own any guns!!) is supposedly a right winger who wants to overthrow the government. Like, I'm so done with this bum ass country. I get the feeling that this is not about safety but about money grab. Everything in Germany as about money grab. The drivers license costs ~2000€. The mandatory public broadcaster fee that every citizen has to pay PER APARTMENT (even if you don't watch or listen to their stuff). The mandatory health insurance, that raised their fees this year while, at the same time cutting down on their services.
Germany has some of the highest income taxes too.
Where does all this money even go??? The roads and especially the bridges are in terrible conditions.
The railway is run by absolute idiots(!!!) who are so incompetent that they uploaded international security plans TO THEIR PUBLICALLY ACCESSIBLE WEBSITE which caused a major incident last year, unidentified persons damaged data cables in 2 cities which disabled railway traffic in half of the country. And now, a year later a news outlet reported that after they were repaired, the damn cables are still lying around in the open, if somebody wanted to cut them again nothing would stop them! No safety measures, no covers, nothing!
Are the big players in this country intentionally sabotaging themselves or are just fucking retarded???
How can we, the citizens expect anything and have any trust in public institutions at this point?!?!?
And this rant here is only scratching the surface. This country is done for, the politicians are idiots, radical movements are on the rise, in 20 years it's going to be full on civil war. Or even earlier.