Thursday, March 24, 2022

European gun control, 2022 version.

Well well. Poland just figured out that disarming the whole population means... the whole population is disarmed.

WARSAW, Poland — Scared that Russian President Vladimir Putin will eventually target them, Polish civilians, many of them women, are flocking to gun ranges so they can learn how to shoot Glocks and AK-47s.

The number of people coming to shoot guns has tripled at Strzelnica Warszawianka, a gun range and shooting school in the Polish capital Warsaw that's tucked in a basement underneath a swimming pool, since the war erupted, one instructor told VICE World News.


Wow. How unexpected. Who could have seen that coming?

In Poland, gun laws are fairly strict, so owning one isn't easy: it takes months to go through all the prerequisite background checks, and some firearms have to be registered with police.  But Chewiński said Poland's government will likely loosen the restriction soon, which will make owning a gun easier. "Of course to access weapons you'll have to get psychiatric clearance. You can't just show your ID and buy a weapon," he said.

 Yeah, you can't just show your ID and buy a gun... this week. By next week? They could be handing them out in the park, because the Russkies are in the next town.

After screaming about this shit since 1992, and telling everyone who will listen that gun control is the STUPIDEST idea of our Boomer generation, it looks like I'm right. And man, it sucks to be right about this.

1 comment:

technovelist said...

Excellent post except that gun control isn't the idea of the boomer generation; it's much older than that. E.g., Stalin wasn't a boomer, nor were any of the other 20th Century dictators.