Romania got rid of the communists that used gun control to oppress them, but they didn’t get rid of the collectivist mentality that enabled the oppression.
After three men were shot with a rubber bullet gun over a parking spot in Bucharest, the Romanian authorities say they plan to tighten the legislation for non-lethal gun ownership.
Domestic Affairs Minister Radu Stroe recently said the procedures for owning a fire arm for self defense purposes have been re-started, making it harder to get this kind of weapons.
He further explained psychological testing will be more sophisticated, and all those who own fire arms for self defense could be re-tested.
For those who will want to apply for self defense gun ownership, new tests will be introduced, including a practical and theoretical one, which will results in a more serious selection of rubber bullet or gas guns owners.
The most recent street incident over a parking place in the Dristor neighborhood in Bucharest involved four men, three of which were shot with rubber bullets. The fourth sustained a head injury after being beaten with bats. All four were taken to the hospital but they sustained minor injuries, and were all conscious. The Police are currently investigating the incident.
In the beginning of 2013, the Police found 1,500 illegal non-lethal weapons, whose owners did not have the needed permits. The previous year, in 2012, the Police doubled the amount of weapons sent to be scrapped or decommissioned in 2012 on the previous year.
The 1,343 weapons, which include lethal and non-lethal weapons and guns, were taken by the Bucharest Police after licenses to own them expired. The figure was 93 percent up on 2011 and resulted largely from a police crackdown on weapons following a fatal shooting in Bucharest in early 2012.
Source: http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-authorities-plan-to-tighten-rules-for-owning-non-lethal-weapons-after-street-shooting-over-parking-spot/112352/
So if Peter decides to make a gasoline bomb, does that mean we’re all going to need permits to buy gas? And what about the bats? No bat control? They’re not going to ban baseball in Romania?
What we see here is the mentality of the communist/progressive, punish all for the crimes of few. Equality of misery and suffering. This is why I like Jonah Goldberg’s column on “income inequality:”
As a broad generalization, liberals see income as a public good that is distributed, like crayons in a kindergarten class. If so-and-so didn’t get his or her fair share of income, it’s because someone or something — government, the system — didn’t distribute income properly. To the extent conservatives see income inequality as a problem, it is as an indication of more concrete problems. If the poor and middle class are falling behind the wealthy, it might be a sign of declining or stagnating wages or lackluster job creation. In other words, liberals tend to see income inequality as the disease, and conservatives tend to see it as a symptom.
Also, income inequality can be a benign symptom. For instance, if everyone is getting richer, who cares if the rich are getting richer faster? New York City’s inequality, for instance, is partly a function of the fact that it is so attractive to poor immigrants who start at the bottom of the ladder but with the ambition to climb it rapidly.
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/01/06/jonah-goldberg-income-inequality-de-blasio-column/4343523/
Yet what collective solutions can there be? Even if taxes were 0% and all the regulations were abolished, there will always be men who lack ability or lack the will to work or work hard. This is why collectivism fails, in a free society, the individual does what he wishes, trading with others to his heart’s content, protecting his life with the lethal or non-lethal device of his choice. In Romania, they judge him guilty before he does anything.
This is why we hate the Bloomberg’s and DeBlasio’s, they judge us dangerous before we do anything to deserve that label.
