metamal_english ([info]metamal_english) wrote,
@ 2005-07-28 00:20:00
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Weapons and civilians

Some time ago I read a news story from Khabarovsk city local news web-site. (That is the closest to Korea Russian city.) The story was that one night at 1 a.m. a group of drunken guys and girls on a big Toyota jeep came to visit their friend. They stopped the car in front of their friend's apartment building and called him out. Then they got out of the car, turned on the car's audio system to the full volume and started some sort of improvised drink-and-dance party on the street. Soon neighbours from other apartments started to complain and yell at them to shut off the music and get away. The guys didn't pay any attention to the neighbours and even made the music louder. Finally after half an hour of loud music, drunken screams, shouting and yelling someone threw an antitank hand grenade to the car. Yep, that is not a misprint. Antitank hand grenade. The jeep was blown up to shreds. By some miracle nobody was killed but all disturbers got into hospital with fragmentation wounds.

All people who posted comments under that news story expressed full support to the unknown person who threw the grenade. Some people wrote that they would use RPG or antitank missile if they had one. Nobody suggested that it would be better to call the police.

After several days of investigation police still could not find out who threw the grenade.

I remembered that story because yesterday I read an entry in [info]bluecor's journal about Koreans and their attitude to weapons. I started some debate there. [info]bluecor says that every citizen should have a right to possess firearms. I think that Koreans and Korean society don't need it. What do you think?


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(Anonymous)
2005-07-27 04:16 pm UTC (link)
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I never hold the weapon in my arms. Its dangerous.
The live of people is of great value. His neighbours is simply madmans.

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[info]metamal_english
2005-07-27 06:22 pm UTC (link)
They are not madmans. They are highly irritated people possessing weapons.

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[info]celeste_in_kr
2005-07-27 11:17 pm UTC (link)
I haven't thought about having weapon not much.
but because we Korean people don't have it generally, I'm afraid of having weapon, although I can have one.

I think everyone could kill others in an extreme case.
but if everyone has weapon, I think killing people will happen more frequently not in that extreme case. moreover recently there are so many abnormal people everywhere. :(

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[info]khimmy
2005-07-28 01:04 am UTC (link)
I would like that anti-tank grenade... Some people keep parking their cars right out my house front gate... I keep calling the police and they tell me they can't do anything and that's exactly when I sometimes slash their tires or break their side mirror.... I am not proud of my behavior.. but sometimes, you feel like you would rather take the matter with your own hands... faster that way...
No, Koreans still don't need carry any weapons....

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[info]bluecor
2005-07-28 09:22 am UTC (link)
Well, I'm happy to see that a good discussion has come about here. I'm willing to agree with our host in saying that Koreans are better off without weapons. They don't need them, and they would be very bad for the Korean society. More about this back on my journal.

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[info]sea_changer
2005-08-01 07:18 pm UTC (link)
Living in a country, the U.S., where there are 200,000,000 firearms in private hands out of a population of around 280,000,000, I can't say I feel safer. In fact, I feel just the opposite and feel that we would be better off without them. I must admit though, I also own firearms. As far as the argument that the average citizen needs a weapon to protect themselves from violence, I know statistically in America people use firearms on themselves, their spouses, their boy and girlfriends, family members, friends and acquaintances. Perceptions to the contrary, Americans, for the most part, do not shoot strangers. Cases of stranger on stranger deadly violence tends to be the exception rather than the rule. The Koreans are better off without them.

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[info]janellys
2005-09-02 05:36 pm UTC (link)
I just had to look and I found it! Very cool!

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[info]lotustea
2005-10-01 01:44 am UTC (link)
Hi, thanks for adding me! I added you back :)
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That's an interesting question. I'll think about it for a while...

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[info]nats172
2006-12-14 12:44 pm UTC (link)
Oh hello there :)

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