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.
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Oh, to be a garbage man in Serbia.
Serb order to secure corrupt monopoly of violence creates garbage hazard.
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So Serbia is the next "Land Mass" to hear US Drones night and day. You heard it here first kidz.
Gee whiz, this sounds hauntingly familiar.
In non-compliance solidarity with my Serbian brothers and sisters, from behind enemy lines here in Kommiecticut.
Comply with this...ASSHOLES! (imagine both appropriate fingers raised in salute while facing goobermint officials)
The Serbs are about as familiar with the downside of a government monopoly of violence as anyone on the planet. That's why few of their governments have really enjoyed one, because the Serbs are not easily disarmed. I would be willing to bet some of the items laying about in hidden cache's were first hidden from the Ottoman Turks by the present owner's grandparents and great-grandparents. It's going to take more than the local "Feinstein" saying "Mr. & Mrs. Serbia, turn them all in."
And as for government confiscation raids, remember these are people with a demonstrated fondness for shooting back.
As we read, Serbs are busy burying more ordnance than they did people during the Yugoslavian civil wars.
There's a reason the Serbian ammo factory Prvi Partizan got that name....
What would be the possibility that this is: [1} Connected to the UN Arms Treaty. 2} Let's see what happens on a smaller scale if the PTB tries to get the guns by force]?
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