Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

82m Americans own guns

So your 98 percent of them being sane and responsible still leaves 1.8m unstable gun owners.

Seems like a big number from a European perspective

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Two came round to mine this morning because someone had vandalized a bus stop nearby. They didn't have guns.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

JR this is a democracy - maybe not as established as the US but now 35 years old and the way we solve these problems is by elections.

Abortion is one of the biggest electoral issues in Poland today. We will use our democratic process to decide.

In the 2019 elections only one party wanted more liberal access to guns - Kukiz. However during the campaign there was another big massacre, I think at a concert in Vegas, and they dropped that policy.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

But a good proportion of Poles oppose both abortion on demand and access to guns - I'm one of them and I reckon about 40 percent share my views.

They are totally separate issues unless you an American right winger

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

35 gun deaths last year means that is literally a one in million chance for your average Kowalski

We have more chance of winning the lottery

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

See London, Sweden, Germany, France ?

All high income, interesting and nicer, healthier places to live than Appalachia

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Of course you need it - you never know when a rogue taxi driver might come calling

News / Will Poland as a NATO member be drawn into the Israel/Iran war ? [250]

It would be a short war - and in a good way

North Nigerian alcoholics
Chinese peasants
Starving Koreans
Mad Muslims who can't aim their missiles

All equipped with junk.

They are going to send unmotivated slaves to fight free men ?

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

No because we don't hunt whales or zubr any more.

Mind you if I could get a gun I for sure would go off and blast a few peaceful bison

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

How many deer should there be ? They were there long before the white man

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

He was absolutely in danger - she was a lunatic cab driver.

The guy deserves a medal, not a felony charge. One less Uber criminal in Ohio

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

She was on his lawn. With intent to invade. A psychopathic uber driver

Her death was totally justified

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

It was a home invasion by a crazed taxi driver.

The guy was totally correct to blast her away with no questions asked

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

I'm not sure what good a crappy handgun fired by an amateur middle aged man like me is going to do against North Nigerian armored vehicles.

Isn't it better to invest in drones, fighters, missiles etc ?

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

cbsnews.com/news/uber-driver-killed-scam-phone-call-william-brock-loletha-hall-clark-county-ohio/

Another mistaken "home invasion"

The kind of thing that would never happen in Poland.

Just one of 500+ accidental deaths from firearms in the US every year

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

In North Nigeria I would say police stations are one of the most dangerous places

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Poland gun deaths 35
US accidental gun deaths 672

1200 kids died in gun accidents since 2002. They had no votes on gun laws.

There is a separate thread to discuss abortion, which in broad terms I oppose, but its up to voters to debate it.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Here is a bet - the amount of accidental family firearms deaths in the US in 2023 was 10x higher than total gun deaths in Poland in 2023

I will google it now

News / Will Poland as a NATO member be drawn into the Israel/Iran war ? [250]

Minor damage only from these 300 drones - I am no fan of Netanyahu but I would say that's a good news for the world that there are effective defences against Muslim fundamentalist states

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Yes but these are the facts we rarely have to confront or excuse here in Europe because we don't let people carry automatic weapons - it doesn't matter how good their aim is.

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Don't you also need to control for large scale gun massacres at schools, concerts, parades, sports events etc, for accidental shooting of burglars who turn out to be your mum, for femicides and many more examples

Those are not suicides and nothing to do with hipsters buying cannabis

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

Those are high numbers for tiny populations

But anyway we don't care what you do in Wyoming - people there can vote for what they want

Here nobody votes for guns. And it's not about being left or right - Orban, Kaczynski, Salvini are all hard right and all against guns

Work / tram driver foreigner [31]

There are Indian bus drivers in some towns now.

Not sure about trams though - never seen a foreigner driving one

Real Estate / Move from Canada and buy an apartment in Krakow? [22]

Personal view - new builds are getting worse and if you move into something already built you won't be waiting for road infrastructure

Are you a Polish citizen ? If so then it's realistic to find remote work. If you don't have Polish citizenship you will probably need a work permit, even for remote work

Law / What do I need to open a restaurant in warsaw [5]

1. yes - permits from the Sanepid (environmental agency) and an alcohol license plus a few other things)
2. Speak to an accountant or google it - there are several types of business. In some cases you might need a work permit if you are non EU

3. Yes - you need to have toilets, fire exits etc but in general the regulation is light - google it.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]

You are going to share your knowledge of Polish taxes from the standpoint of your bedroom in Sydney ?

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]

In my case because the ruling party were trashing 30 years of democracy, taxing me way too much and running up a massive deficit and inflation through constant handouts

Law / Weed laws in Poland [25]

3

No grandkids yet :)

That's above the average these days !

Law / Weed laws in Poland [25]

And what a fine advert you are for an abstemious lifestyle - a bitter loner and full time troll

Life / Adopting a cat in Poland? [13]

Vaccine costs for my cats are 90 zloty a year. Might be more in Poznan but in any case not a big amount