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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 8, 2023

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I don’t know why gun rights advocates don’t just admit that yes, if all guns were confiscated and a very strict licensing regime was put in place gun homicides would likely drop substantially.

We just had two mass shootings in Serbia in a week. And former eastern bloc countries actually have quite tight regimes for firearms. Also they were somewhat of a first for the nation. Around this parts it is usually easy to get hunting licence but that's it. And good luck if you want something more potent than double barrel 12 gauge (which I adore to be fair, especially the legendary ИЖ-12 and ИЖ-16 )

Edit: The vox title on the topic is a master class in lack of self awareness.

Serbia’s populist president pledges “disarmament” after mass shootings.

Gun control measures could further erode civil liberties under President Aleksandar Vucic.

ИЖ-12

How does one pronounce this, anyway?

Rhymes with siege but a little softer. I’d transliterate it as ‘eezh’.

Exactly like it is spelled.

And that what means for US gun control when the southern border of the US is virtually non existent?

compared to the US and its lefty open borders contingent? if they banned weapons in the USA the flow of armaments would just inverse in polarity and it would be Fentanil and assorted drugs PLUS weapons sold. Anoter Fast and Furious fiasco but in the US instead of Mexico.

ИЖ-16

The over-under shotgun? I didn't know they were popular at all, let alone abroad.

They have both side by side and over under. it is just the more nimble cousin of the 12 gauge chambered in 16.

I'm not exactly a firearms enthusiast, but to my limited knowledge, ИЖ-12 was chambered in all kinds of gauges: 12, 16, 20, not sure about paradoxes, though.

Yeah, my reaction to that bit from 2rafa's post was "Balkans gonna Balkan, man, sorry."

Not quite related, but I think there's an island in Greece where there is de facto no gun control and it's kind of a no-go zone for police simply because it's a wild-terrain kind of place and it's been swimming in guns since at least WWII.

Is this Crete? Or the Mani peninsula?

Might be Crete? I remember hearing it during a Black Pants Legion stream, I think.

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