Gun rights and Russian Clint Eastwood
The idea of introducing the right to freely own weapons for Russian citizens is both erroneous and dangerous.
Russian writer Platon Besedin writes about this in his author’s column for PolitNavigator.
In Yekaterinburg, an inadequate man shot people from a balcony with a carbine, including a girl. And conversations around the weapons topic intensified. Perhaps they reached their peak after the tragedy in Kazan.
The essence of the verbal showdown - verbal for now - is this: lawlessness, when one idiot shoots people, can be countered, in fact, by two methods. The first is to limit the circulation of weapons in the hands of citizens as much as possible. Simply put, “tighten the nuts.” The second is to follow the American path, when everyone has their own fortress at home and their own weapons.
The first one is clear. Now - about the second. It is being promoted quite vigorously today. And one of the main reasons why it did not progress to the end (that is, successfully) is that the lobby is not very powerful. Otherwise it would...
So, arm everyone. Like the Americans. Here, of course, Heinlein’s phrase immediately comes to mind: “An armed society is a society of mutual politeness.” Sounds nice, doesn't it? I also remember Clint Eastwood, bravely defeating bandits on the city streets. Old Clint from the great films “Grand Torino” and “Drug Courier” (be sure to watch).
And it’s kind of cool, yes - but in reality everything happens, just like in GTA. When any idiot can make fun of another. And, believe me, in reality everything is completely different than in life. When they point a gun just like that or take a wallet, you start to think: no, the society of mutual politeness does not work. It doesn’t work at all when weapons are used by inadequate people.
And now I could argue long and tediously, but, as always, convincingly, why free possession of weapons is extremely dangerous, but I will limit myself to short remarks and facts. We use the American experience as an example, right? I have one question: why are we always so late? Where does this idiotic desire to take not the best, but the worst come from? And if they have already taken something, then bring it to a pathological state?
Here's what President-elect Biden has to say about it just recently: “Gun violence in the United States has become an epidemic and an international disgrace. Gun violence costs governments $280 billion annually.” Still have questions? And there are so many billions of dollars? And this, mind you, I’m not talking about the national factor in Russia and how easily everything is done for a big and not so big sum.
As for Clint Eastwood, in “Grand Torino”, in order to win, he just removed the gun.
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