AliceMako 2016-02-02 07:04:38

Glocks are a girl's best friend, or so i've been told by friends across the pond.

In my neck of the woods the constitution expressly states that the citizenry shall bear no firearms to ensure the continuation of government, so as far as small blessings go you at least have the liberty to arm yourself if you so choose.

That said, merely owning a firearm does not automatically improve ones safety, it's not a magical sigil that repels ghosts and goblins just by lying around.

Like any other tool one will have to invest time and effort to learn how to use it, preferably without being disarmed at the drop of a hat and thereafter perpetually train to maintain this particular aptitude, lest it's presence be more of a future liability then a viable option for defence.

Stay safe.

AliceMako 2016-02-03 05:01:28

I hail from the Netherlands, or EU district 2 in certain circles.

It is a tyrannical or autocratic if you will sort of measure, it dates back to 1919 shortly after the conclusion of the first world war.

Popular uprisings, particularly communist ones were taking place in various countries across europe during this period, the dutch government sought to prevent that by instating said law, which technically did not ban firearm ownership outright but it completely prohibited the sales of them to the rather vaguely termed "unauthorised" persons as well as allow for confiscation if people not meet whatever the criteria was.

The legislation has been through revision during the 80s and the 90s, one is theoretically allowed to own a firearm but it is bound by an incredible amount of hoops to jump through, not least of all submitting to random home searches by law enforcement and the dictum that both the firearm and it's ammunition must be kept in wall mounted safes in seperate rooms at all times.

I'm sure you can imagine just how useful that is during an immediate crisis, so along with prohibitive costs and the risk of having the firearm confiscated on a whim and the fact that one is not allowed to carry the item anywhere at all besides a shooting range, legal gun ownership is not terribly popular here.

AliceMako 2016-02-20 23:41:33

You are entirely correct and that is exactly what happened when the german tanks rolled across the border after world war 2 kicked off in earnest which was not all that long after these measures were taken.

That said, the movement to disarm all developed nations and convert them to various flavors of police state, in so far as either or both these things are not already the case, is still under way and it does not appear that this tide will turn one way or the other as long as the majority of people is unable or unwilling to see that this is indeed the case.

Whether this is good or bad depends on ones disposition towards global governance, if societies as a whole refuse to improve by leaps and bounds then the current crop of would be nobility will just carry on as they have thus far and i don't think merely getting better ones or hanging them all will change anything either.

The core of the issue is never the arms, it is whether conditions and incentives exist for them to be used negatively that matters. Switzerland and the netherlands for example are about on par in terms of violent crime which is to say very low, one is armed to the teeth the other is virtually unarmed, both are well to do and hardcore liberal societies though which i venture accounts for this state of affairs better then the availability of firearms.