# Guns kill people but so does unchecked firepower owned solely by governments

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2022/05/27/guns-kill-people-but-so-do-unchecked-firepower-owned-solely-by-governments/
- Published: 2022-05-27T18:15:19+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

All Eastern Europe (Romania, Poland, Hungary, Check R. etc.) would not have been
communist if common people had weapons. With the right to buy, own and carry the
peoples here would have taken a dump on the “influence map” which the Americans 
and Russians agreed upon at like the entitled assholes they were, throwing millions
in the trash bin of history.

All Eastern Europe is a prime example of what an unarmed population does to politics:
it enables outside control on the destiny of a nation, it allows a small minority
to take over control by rewriting numbers in books, it enables military coups and
so much more.

So yes, guns kill people. But regulation is not a golden ticket either. In Romania,
a person who owns a gun and shoots a burglar that enters their home at night, who
is armed and threatening, needs years of investigations to clear the suspicion of
murder. _In their own house. At night. An unknown person._

The Romanian “law” says one should respond with “equal violence”. So if one fights
with their fists or a knife, I can’t use a gun. But this is stupid of course. Plus
our guns need to be locked away in a box with a key, and the key must be somewhere
else. So, if we follow the letter of the law, it is impossible to use the weapon
for self defence, even if the state approves you owning one for self defence.

This stupid way of things exists because the idea of an armed population is something
unthinkable in areas where 95% of the people have been peasants, poor, illiterate,
slaves, owned for so much of history.

Whenever we the people in these lands revolt, being unarmed, the price is hundred
fold in human lives, because we don’t have weapons but the proverbial “_they_” do!

Guns kill people. But regulation is not going to be all good and great. As a non
US citizen I care because whatever the empire does reverberates throughout the known
world.