Danger and Fear
One morning at the platform, waiting for the train to arrive.On the platform is a shop selling bakery products, newspapers and some other bits and pieces. In front an elderly man getting het up:
“This is unbeliavable! It is a crime! Didn’t you see him? He had a gun! He carried that gun openly!” Two sales women from the shop stood next to him, listening. They were quite young, around twenty. One said “yes, that was the man from the security firm.” The old man very outraged: “This is not allowed!! You cannot carry a gun with you openly just in a halter!!” The young women, not understanding his point: “Don’t worry, he comes here every morning like this”
“Whaaaaat? Every morning? With an open gun??!!” “He just get’s the money from the cash desk.” “But do you know how dangerous that can be?? Walking around with a gun openly in Germany is forbidden!! Can you believe how dangerous it is, if he walks around here with an unsecured gun?!”
“Mmh, I think it is allowed if you have a gun licence, to carry it around with you.” “No. He had a gun openly and possibly ready to fire!! Can’t you imagine how easily something could happen? Just imagine two guys. One holds his arms, the other one gets the gun!!” “I think it is okay, I mean, nothing did happen until today.” “I cannot believe it! You don’t know what carrying a gun means! I was born 1925. Believe me, I know what it means.” “Never before anything happened.”
“It’s not about me. I almost don’t have any eysight anymore and I cannot walk properly anymore. But it’s about the women there with the buggy, about that young boy and about you, who will have to be sitting blind in a wheelchair until the end of your life!”
well, I do agree there must be regulations&control to restrict people from owning a gun/guns. In fact it’s not the gun, it’s that man who can harm other people, if he decided to use it.Then we cannot say it’s the gun who did it, because it is not able of shooting on its own.Here comes the human factor-making a decision and commiting a crime.
We don’t even need a gun when we want to hurt other people-there are so many other ways-poisoning, a knife, beating, ……..
Instead of putting great efforts to prohibit people from buying a gun, we would better try to provide an environment, which wouldn’t impose so much stress and tension to its inhabitants and would allow these guys to have mental stability thus being able to decide what is right and what is wrong.
All we need is responsible people who are aware of how important it is to save human lives.
Sometimes we just do not think about small things which can be so dangerous. Defenetly people who have access to the guns have to be taught not only how they should take care of their guns and how to use it, But also how not to use it. When people are living in very peacefull conditions they get used to it and forget about sequrity and care.