Saturday 22 December 2012

Firearms accessibility



Recent events in U.S.A, has raised interest in matter of access to firearms. Polish procedure of getting permission to carry a weapon, is most restricted in UE. In order to obtain permission, you have to detrmine the purpose you need your weapon for, and justify it. Strictly Rejected will be applications of persons, who:


  1. Are under 21 years old
  2. Are being a thret to their selfs or others
  3. Has any mental disorders
  4. Has  physical disabilities
  5. Are addicted to alcohol or any other stimulant
  6. Does not possess any constant adress on teritory of Poland
  7. Were convicted for any crimes


There also exist a criteria of grounds for having weapon, which is higly subjective for an executive organ, and those grounds are not specified by any act.

Many of people are convinced that facilitating an access to firearms will result increase in crime magnitude with guns involved, however statistics seems to show otherwise. Please take a closer look on relation between quantity of firearms possessed and rate of homocides:

source: http://www.wykop.pl/ramka/1354531/troche-statystyk-o-broni-palnej-w-polsce-i-na-swiecie/


I would like to present some interesting guardian's article as well, it has very specific statistics involved:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list


Statistics are curious, except Jamaica, in every country quantity of murders committed are pretty much the same, regardless to quantity of weapons possessed.
On the other hand cases of violent lunatic behavior associatet with guns is quite often encountered in media. Horrifying occurrences such as recent shooting in Newton U.S.A, call for measures regarding safety increase. But let's take a closer look at those cases. In U.S.A, the only places where guns are strictly prohibited are shools and Univercities campuses. Killer knew that he is stepping into area where pople are completly defendless.

That issue bring up following questions:

1. Do you think that accessibility to weapons will prevent or rather encourage such such tragedies to happen?
2. Are you for or against making firearms more accesible in poland?


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11 comments:

  1. s771923 December 2012 at 20:15

    1. Definitely, because having a gun gives people a sense of security. When our life is in danger we have means to protect ourselves.

    2. I don't think so, because in Poland a lot of people would just abuse this privilege, I mean, people something have really vicious arguments and what if, in the heat of the moment, someone would just snap and grabbed a gun?

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  2. Natalia23 December 2012 at 21:58

    According to first question: do accessibility to knifes (everyone has one!) encourage others to kill?
    In my opinion if everyone has gun, people would fell safer and criminals would be more scared.
    Imagine that you are criminalsand you have to choose house to rob. Wolud you rather choose home with alarm on it or that in which could be armed person who have permission to shoot you if you come uninvited to their house ? :)
    I don't think that there is any better protection that fear of the opponent.
    I'm for making firearms more accesible in poland, because "normal" people could finally get it and protect their self. Criminals already have weapons.
    In such case law should be changed to, now if you protect your family by killing robber you are not a hero but a murderer and you go to the jail for next 25 years.

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  3. s996224 December 2012 at 01:16

    s7719, I can see some lack of consequence in your train of thought. If you think that carrying a firearm would give people sense of security, why would you reclaim it from your folks? There is no reason why in poland privilege to carry a gun would be abuse.

    Natalia, I tottaly agree with You, but I have to inform you that in poland not only firearm is illegal to posess. It also apply to pepper sprays, gas weapon, knifes with conceal blade, electric weapon (paralizators), brass knuckless, telescope bats, and so on.
    Authorities in poland treat citizens as a highly irresponsible, and they assume that possessing a wepon equals using it in bad intesions. They took from us our right to defen our selfs. Thing is, if you catch a burglar in your house, he can sue you and easyli win the case, if he will get bruised up. Also it is unfair that criminals can aquire gun so easily, unlike decent citizens for whom it is nearly impossible.

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  4. s749524 December 2012 at 11:57


    1. The recent tragedy that happened in Connecticut has highlighted yet another case how dangerous the guns are. This horrid and inhuman act demonstrated that there is no justification why firearms should be legal.I am truly against it and believe that the new regulations are needed to prevent future acts of horror. It is an urgent matter that all the countries need to revisit and make the regulations as strict as possible. Some Americans think that forbidding the possession of weapons is against their Constitutional rights.Plus the statistics presented by the author of the article support the theory that making the guns legal will help reduce the crimes. I can't justify it and hence I do not believe in it. I think the firearms are extremely dangerous and we have witnessed too many inhuman acts to think otherwise.
    2. I am totally against making the firearms more accessible in Poland. In Poland, the crime ratio is already very high and I can't imagine how bad it could get with the easy gun access. It takes only few seconds to take someone's life using a firearm. Hence, it is essential that the rules are enforced and strict.

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  5. Cezary Brzozowski5 January 2013 at 12:17

    In my opinion, should have a servants weapon authorized to do so and also people who have undergone appropriate training and research. But I know that the time will be able to buy it on the black market. I think that the Polish law in this respect is quite well constructed. We have cases of homicide or suicide using firearms, but they are relatively rare. The issue of gun ownership should be balanced, the permit and prohibit all all the two extremes, which will result in the same - expansion of the number of weapons on the street and increased number of killings of its use.
    Therefore, the state of my knowledge and I would not feel anything has changed in this regard in Polish law.

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  6. PrzemekM6 January 2013 at 15:12

    Availability of weapons in Poland unless it is at a good level because I do not see people with guns on the street. On the other hand I would be owning and shooting people intruding our homes. This may very humane and outrageous but you have to experience for yourself burglary. Many people are under the sign with both hands. Like its predecessors have noticed the problem does not necessarily lie in the same weapon because that is the way it is used, it depends on the people and their psyche. I am convinced that allowing more to be ended as it is in the United States.

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  7. Piotr Dębosz6 January 2013 at 16:41

    Don't you guys realize that most of these crimes had places in states where guns are forbid or in "gun free zones" ?

    Don't you think that Breivik wouldn't do this massacre if everyone in Utoya has a gun?

    "Good guys carrying guns can and do make a difference, the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

    That's words of Wayne LaPierre (president of National Rifle Association) and I agree very much with this.

    Unfortunately in Poland having a license depends of officer's good will.

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  8. Grzegorz Rutecki6 January 2013 at 22:26

    Guys, it is a very interesting topic, i see you are for or against the gun, but my question would be. Is a gun posession a real problem in our country? Have you ever been threaten with a gun on the street? i live for 23 years and i have never seen a guy with a gun in hands on the street and i have never been even close to any situation with gun. So my experience would be of course that i am gainst accessibility to weapons, because i haven't got any problem with that yet. Let's even analyze the society, there are not many serious firing accidents. I don't care if there are gangsters and they shoot themselves. That's ok, let them eliminate one another, it's called natural selection, if there was not guns, they would fight with knives. You would say, okey but they still have a gun and we don't. Yes, but they will not shot any of you with it, because we are all protected by law, and gangsters are NOT, because they are wanted. So if the gangster kills another gangster, no one from the gangsters world will report it to police, because they would all go to jail. So this is why none of these bad guys wants to shoot you with a gun. Now let's imagine the situation, when there would be a legalization of the gun posession. Now for these gangsters, normal citizens would become a real danger, so they might get a litle more dangerous to normal people. Actually there is a positive, because you could always kill some gun attacker when you see some situation, but in example, that could be just a normal guys but drunk, getting nervous but they know they wouldn't kill each other, and there you are a superhero with a gun, to shoot the attacker. THIS IS MADNESS, not a freedom and totally not for country like Poland. Again, this is just my opinion...

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  9. null7 January 2013 at 00:03

    For me weapon should be available for people on the same rights like in Poland. Why? Because we have very restricted availability of guns. In USA almost everybody have their own weapon and because of this they have so many tragic situations. Here we don't have so much easy access to guns and we don't have so much killings commited with firearms. So as you can guess I'm against making firearms more accesible in Poland.

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  10. s79047 January 2013 at 00:32

    In my opinion the availability of weapons makes people feel over all, because they have access to something that actually kills another human being. Access to weapons is supposed to guarantee safety can, and something in it but I think that access to weapons, people should be psychologically tested for to see if the person will actually use the weapons to defend the extreme and necessary, or as in the U.S. we hear no weapons and will not go to shoot the children to school.
    I think that Poland would not be good people would not use the weapon of necessity. In Poland, which is enough to introduce the law allows you to defend your property and defend when someone is attacking us.

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  11. s1004723 January 2013 at 18:46

    I do not support the idea that weapons should be easily available in Poland or any other country. Although once I was at the shooting range and I really liked it, yet, I still think that this sport is very dangerous and it is not for everyone. I know that it will be difficult to achieve but still I dream that one day we will stop producing any kinds of weapons.

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