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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[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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