Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

But several posts above Dolno has corrected me - Switzerland with the highest firearms ownership in Europe also has a higher rate of shootings. Czech does not have loose firearms laws and it does not have a low rate of gun crime compared to the US. That has been explained many times before with statistics - and it is the reason why no country in Europe wants to relax gun laws.

All of these countries have far lower rates than the US. You can buy guns in Walmart and I don't know what checks are done but probably not enough in 3 days. There should be one check " do you want an AK or an Uzi in your house, near your kids?". If the answer is yes then you should not be allowed one.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

He he fair enough :) every days a school day !

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Of course not - it'needs good police, fair courts and above all citizens that understand their duties and not just harp on about their rights. It does not have to be a homogenous society - Switzerland with 3 major groups has hardly any gun crime, ditto Australia, Canada, Belgium.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

It is a problem in London for sure but those are freak months - last year New York had 290 murders, London 130.

It would be more in London if there were guns.

As for the mayor well people voted for him and they can vote him out too.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

But like the NRA (who also don't often go to college) this guy is merely exercising his right to free speech for something he believes in. That is something he could not do in China or Russia, where the way to influence politics is either via coercion or corruption. Without some level of freedom then the potential of those big countries will always be limited and living standards for the masses will be below the West.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Czech, Switzerland , Norway etc do not have lax gun laws like the States - you can not buy an AK at Tesco, Migros etc. And you certainly can not carry them around in any European country. The level of gun crime in most European countries including France is many times less than in the US. All of that has been discuss3d many times before.

Your "gun facts" graph about the U.K. is ridiculous - in fact 99 percent of guns were banned in Britain from 1920 onwards - in 1996 they banned the other 1 percent, after the only school shooting in history in the U.K. one is too many the govt decided and quite rightly didn't not want any more made me walking around witheasy access to handguns.

The only countries on your graph with higher rates than the US seem to be Central American states and a few places in Africa. Shouldn't you compare yourselves to the other rich democracies ?

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

IS I basically agree with you that life is created at the end moment of conception. This is why I oppose abortion on healthy foetuses.

On those that are not healthy then what is your solution for caring for those children ? Is it the states responsibility or the parents (for sure it is not the church who steps up fort hat) On a practical level then support for these children and their families is virtually non existent. I don't know if it's true because I saw it on my facebook feed but I read the govt even wants to cut refunding of drugs for premature children. The proposed law does not include any extra support for parents.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Wtf - there are some truly weird arguments for guns but this is the weirdest. I am certain that texting while driving cause more deaths than guns in Poland. Thats because gun crime is very rare here. It's rare because guns are strictly controlled.

Next week...smoking kills thousands of Poles a year, maybe we should ban smoking and not guns.

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

The link to their supposed statement does not work - a 404. Might have disappeared or might be more of your fake news

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

Not in Poland it's not. You can only get abortion here under strict circumstances. Most people in Poland think the current law is OK - only the hard line church support the governments proposal.

Planned Parenthood has nothing to do with this proposed law.

USA, Canada / So happy to be Polish-American [49]

Welcome !

I asked because there were a large number if untrue things in your few sentances -

Poland does not have the lowest crime rate in Europe, far from it. There are 13 EU countries with lower crime indexes including some like Austria and Netherlands that have substantial immigrant populations

Poland has strict gun control laws - thankfully there is almost zero public support for relaxing them.

Russia has a large population of Muslims - 9m, way more than any other European nation. Many are well integrated and have been for many generations there. Some were probably there when the Poles briefly held Moscow.

You are probably mixing Slovakia with Hungary in your discussion of immigration.

As for the stuff about atrocities then whole immigration is a huge challenge for Europe, there is little to back up your claim about unrecorded ones but plenty of other threads if you want to stir things up on a continent far from your own house.

USA, Canada / So happy to be Polish-American [49]

You are a teacher ?

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

It was apparently Kaczynski who came up with that figure. Of course he has no kids, never does any shopping and is driven everywhere so he has no idea how much that is worth

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

Most women in this position are married and in loving relationships. And they do have to look after the dusabled child - the govt support proposal was a special bonus of 1500 zloty - half the wage of a cleaner in McDonalds.

I am against aborting healthy foetuses btw

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Yes Kukiz suggested a relaxation of the laws. PiS said they would not support it. This all happened the day before the Las Vegas thing.

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

I don't know how many neo Nazis there are but when I have seen the march a few years ago it is thousands not hundreds. What is for sure is that a large proportion of the crowd are either drunk or on speed. Maybe about a third of them. For sure it is the last place I would take a small kid.

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

But this law is not about abortion at will - its about having to give birth to disabled children

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

Or any connection to women - I think they are all single guys

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

Can you find any writing by Adorno or Horkeimer or Leopold that mentions abortion ? It was several decades ago that i studied that and it was dull but i dont remember any of it discussing abortion.

In fact i had not thought about it for years until i read Andrew Breitbarts half baked book last year, and on googling "Frankfurt school abortion" then the first few pages are by anti semitic whackjobs, mostly in the US. But I am sure you can put me right.

There were I am sure a good number of PiS voters in those crowds yesterday - PiS did very well among working class mums in 2015 but a lot were on the streets.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

What is the best way to diffuse an argument at home ? Tell the wife to call some friends and go shopping. Or alternatively go out yourself to Media Markt and try some new gadgets.

Of course the priests that this law is intended to please no nothing about wives and kids.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Of course sir ! I respect you too and we need to be civil to each other

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Nobody would waste 4 minutes watching your conspiracy video, let alone 4 hours.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

The President, supposedly a lawyer, should be someone able to judge The situation its own merits and consult where required - he failed to do that and he has 100 percent responsibility for this daft law.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

There were other possibilities that most people would accept - limited hours or a higher minimum wage for Sundays - but they went for a "complete" ban except for a bunch of PiS voting interests like florists, small shop owners etc.

I know that 45 percent of Poles arw in favor but if you only asked the 6m that work in the private sector they are overwhelmingly afainst this

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

Er..... they might go every month, you know when they get paid. Radical idea

Its not just Ikea by the way - sone of the biggest businesses in this sector are Polish owned, Agata, BRW, Bodzio

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

Sometimes yes, and especially in winter when many other attractions (zoo, park, kolejka) are either closed or forlorn looking - it gets them out the house, there are plenty of kids activities in big malls (even if open now they will be unviable) , it's warm, clean, there are toilets and plenty of place to park and if we want to buy a small toy for good behaviour then we can do so. By the way teenagers like malls - they can shop and meet girls there.

Yesterday I took one for a swim and one for a freezing walk in the forest - hope that satisfies your good parenting criteria

You don't need to visit Ikea every weekend unless you happen to be building or buying a place - like millions of young hard working Polish families are at the he moment. Then you will probably visit a lot - people don't have cash to do a years furtnuture shopping at one stroke.

For me it's about freedom to do what you want with your spare time - we pay taxes and work hard, why can't we spend weekends how we feel like it ?

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

Last week was OK because it was warm and lots of people were outside in the garden or doing sports. This weekend it's terrible weather so I think it's going to be more of a challenge to keep the kids occupied tomorrow.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

Only Serbia was a NATO action - taken after many warnings were ignored. The rest were either US agressiion or interventions that went wrong.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

Extract Poland from NATO and we will be safe - just like Georgia and Ukraine were

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]

All big towns are close to full employment and there are plenty of other options for workers in other industries. The ironic thing is that conditions in retail are better than in many other industries.

The effect of this law is that hundreds of thousands of people who had stable work patterns now will have to change them as hours are extended on the other 6 days. A tiny proportion of retail employees belong to 5e trade unions who initiated this change