Memorial
for Bosnian Serbs: If there is one thing all sides should have learned,
you don't give those who lust for it a monopoly of violence.
Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images
The
Serbian parliament passed laws last month requiring “strict conditions
for owning firearms, including medical and psychiatric checks,” Reuters reported Tuesday. Citizens who have not proven a "genuine reason"
to persuade the state to grant them a license have been ordered to turn
in their arms to a police amnesty program by June 4 or face up to five
years in prison.
In addition to over one million registered weapons, it is believed hundreds of thousands of unregistered guns, holdovers from the Yugoslav Wars, have been secreted away by participants and their survivors, who know better than to leave themselves defenseless after having experienced widespread violence and instability firsthand. And government, as usual, in its zeal to control all, has responded to crime by holding everyone accountable, and created unintended consequences where the "cure" can be more deadly than the disease.
Anticipating people might not want to turn themselves into a police force that fully half the citizenry sees as corrupt and violent -- and with good reason – the government is now worried that, rather than identify themselves and surrender to officials they fear, and not wanting to be caught and imprisoned for violating disarmament edicts, some may opt to just throw ordnance away. To that end, those in charge have put out an appeal asking that hand grenades not be disposed of in the trash, a potentiality that if it does happen, will be purely of the government’s making.
The thing is, Serbia already had restrictive gun laws, and those did absolutely no good at stopping a mass shooting in 2013. And it's not exactly like recent history shows Serbs possessing a monopoly of violence haven't taken full advantage of the genocide powers a disparity in capabilities ensures.
That “progressive” policies invariably produce Opposite Day results should come as no surprise to anyone who has kept a critical eye on the way “gun control” plays out time and again, from “background checks” that depend on de facto registration (a necessary prelude to confiscation), to “gun free zones,” that give predators the assurance they will succeed in stacking up bodies before a bullet, or the threat of one, ends their rampage. Serbs contemplating whether or not to comply with the amnesty need to ask themselves who they fear more –random freelance thugs, or the official kind that wear badges.
http://www.examiner.com/article/serb-order-to-secure-corrupt-monopoly-of-violence-creates-garbage-hazard?CID=examiner_alerts_article
In addition to over one million registered weapons, it is believed hundreds of thousands of unregistered guns, holdovers from the Yugoslav Wars, have been secreted away by participants and their survivors, who know better than to leave themselves defenseless after having experienced widespread violence and instability firsthand. And government, as usual, in its zeal to control all, has responded to crime by holding everyone accountable, and created unintended consequences where the "cure" can be more deadly than the disease.
Anticipating people might not want to turn themselves into a police force that fully half the citizenry sees as corrupt and violent -- and with good reason – the government is now worried that, rather than identify themselves and surrender to officials they fear, and not wanting to be caught and imprisoned for violating disarmament edicts, some may opt to just throw ordnance away. To that end, those in charge have put out an appeal asking that hand grenades not be disposed of in the trash, a potentiality that if it does happen, will be purely of the government’s making.
The thing is, Serbia already had restrictive gun laws, and those did absolutely no good at stopping a mass shooting in 2013. And it's not exactly like recent history shows Serbs possessing a monopoly of violence haven't taken full advantage of the genocide powers a disparity in capabilities ensures.
That “progressive” policies invariably produce Opposite Day results should come as no surprise to anyone who has kept a critical eye on the way “gun control” plays out time and again, from “background checks” that depend on de facto registration (a necessary prelude to confiscation), to “gun free zones,” that give predators the assurance they will succeed in stacking up bodies before a bullet, or the threat of one, ends their rampage. Serbs contemplating whether or not to comply with the amnesty need to ask themselves who they fear more –random freelance thugs, or the official kind that wear badges.
http://www.examiner.com/article/serb-order-to-secure-corrupt-monopoly-of-violence-creates-garbage-hazard?CID=examiner_alerts_article
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