Annie, Get Your Gun!

As you probably know already, in the US it’s legal for citizens to own and carry guns. This sounds a bit strange to “us” Europeans (Even sounds strange to me being half American and half European). It’s no wonder that so many more people are murdered on that side of the atlantic.

Of course you can’t just walk into a store and buy a gun. You need a permit and special training and appear to be an upright citizen. At least that’s the way it was, in Arizona they just passed a law to make it so that anyone can buy a gun without a test, course or permit.

Now this is really odd! Why in the world would they let just anyone carry around dangerous weapons?

The running suspicion is that the economy could get uglier. If things to get uglier there could be more civil unrest and although it seems bizarre to pass such a law, maybe it’s so people can protect themselves in case things get that bad.

It still doesn’t seem to me make sense, so far the economy hasn’t caused any riots in the US at all, as far as I know.