Posted on 06/07/2023 2:43:33 AM PDT by Libloather
Serbs have until June 8 to surrender all of their unregistered weapons in a push by the government to disarm society following back-to-back mass shootings.
Two mass shootings in consecutive days in early May rocked the Balkans nation, where the types of mass shootings seen so regularly in the United States rarely, if ever, happens.
A 13-year-old boy armed with his father’s pistol killed nine people, including eight children, at an elementary school in Belgrade on May 3. Just one day later, a 20-year-old killed eight and injured 14 in a rampage through a town just south of Belgrade.
In response to the twin tragedies, President Aleksandar Vucic set out on a mission to cleanse Serbia of firearms. Unlike most European countries, Serbia has many illegal guns throughout its society. Serbia has been awash in guns and the proliferation of firearms is mostly a legacy of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Serbia is tied for third with Montenegro in gun ownership in the world, behind the United States and Yemen.
There are 39 firearms for every 100 residents in Serbia and an estimated 2.7 million firearms are in civilian possession, including 1.5 million unregistered firearms, according to a 2018 report from the Small Arms Survey.
Perhaps in the most sweeping government action, Vucic ordered that all citizens turn in their unregistered weapons and ammunition to authorities by June 8. Anyone who fails to surrender their weapons during the one-month amnesty period will face stiff penalties and possibly even prison time.
While many in Serbia blame Vucic for the general culture of promoting violence in the media, disarming the population is mostly a welcome measure.
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You forgot the sarc tag.
A man determined to be free in Serbia:
“Give me liberty or else.”
While many in Serbia blame Vucic for the general culture of promoting violence in the media, disarming the population is mostly a welcome measure.
Fox is going more to the Left every single damn day…
including 1.5 million unregistered firearms
= = =
So how do they know this?
“We know you have an unregistered firearm. Hand it over now, or else!”
How many ‘unregistered firearms’ are in the US
“A Serb with a firearm caused a lot of trouble a little over a hundred years ago.”
That is very true.
Hundreds of millions.
Very few firearms in the USA are actually "registered".
Only a few states require them to be registered, and most of the requirements are relatively recent.
‘Hundreds of Millions’——
The pistol brace issue was another registration issue that apparently turned
Into massive noncompliance.
Obviously our gun culture is
Very suspicious.
“There are 39 firearms for every 100 residents in Serbia”.
Pikers.
CC
There are 137 firearms for every 100 residents of the United States of America.
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