‘Restrictive’ gun laws no impediment to Serbian mass shooting

Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 11 April, 2013 | David Codrea

[marktwain]

A shooting rampage early yesterday morning in a Serbian village near Belgrade has left 13 people dead, including six women and a child, The Guardian and other media outlets are reporting.

“Although such random shootings are rare in Serbia, weapons are readily available mostly from the war in the Balkans in the 1990s and there is a tradition of possessing firearms,” the report continues. “Initial reports said the alleged killer had a license for the handgun he used in the shootings.”

That ready availability is in spite of laws that GunPolicy.org, a website established and maintained by committed global “gun control” advocates, has categorized as “restrictive.”

Per their analysis of Serbian gun laws, the country, which does not guarantee a right to firearms ownership by law, has implemented a number of edicts that read like a “gun control” wish list, including prohibition on possession of fully automatic weapons, prohibition on “private possession of semi-automatic assault weapons … with the exception of approved hunting rifles,” licenses required to possess firearms and ammunition, a requirement to produce “a genuine reason” in order to obtain the license, a requirement for “background checks which consider criminal, medical and other various records,” required safety training, limits on the type and amount of ammunition a licensee may possess, so-called “safe storage” requirements, and severe criminal penalties for “illegal possession” of firearms.

Despite such restrictions, “in Serbia there are estimated to be 12.55 illicit firearms per 100 people.”

[marktwain]

The people who are pushing to disarm the American populaiton are more interested in making the weapons illegal than in taking them right away.

[trubolotta]

Thirteen people were denied the right of self defense. Thirteen people are dead as a result. From here on, every time I see something like this I am going to ask the gun control freaks “Where was the responsible adult with a firearm that could have intervened?”

[basil]

ping!