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[Elune]

It's actually colossally easier to get a gun in the USA than in Serbia. I don't deny that the Serbs like guns, though. It's been a tradition ever since the Osman conquest of Serbia in the 15th century, and remained so after the liberation in the 19th century, because liberty was bought and maintained with the force of arms. During the communist period in Yugoslavia, after WWII, military service was compulsory for guys (ironically there was a greater danger from the USSR than from the USA, because Tito didn't want Yugoslavia to join the communist international (and thus effectively become Moscow's vassal), and after the Tito-Stalin split, the USSR held about a million soldiers on the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border; being relatively small, Yugoslavia had to compensate its lack of numbers somehow), and everyone had to know how to fire a weapon. Even schools had, I've heard, a supply of a couple of firearms so that kids could learn how to shoot. That was abolished a few years ago, but the chaos of the nineties' civil war still remains in the memory of many. Every second person had a gun those days because they didn't feel secure without one. I suppose that many of those still exist and work.

This is so true.My parents born 60s had in high school subject called "Одбрана и заштита" (defence and protection -direct translation) .I m still sad my generation didnt have subject like that.

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[sasapinjic]

It's actually colossally easier to get a gun in the USA than in Serbia. I don't deny that the Serbs like guns, though. It's been a tradition ever since the Osman conquest of Serbia in the 15th century, and remained so after the liberation in the 19th century, because liberty was bought and maintained with the force of arms. During the communist period in Yugoslavia, after WWII, military service was compulsory for guys (ironically there was a greater danger from the USSR than from the USA, because Tito didn't want Yugoslavia to join the communist international (and thus effectively become Moscow's vassal), and after the Tito-Stalin split, the USSR held about a million soldiers on the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border; being relatively small, Yugoslavia had to compensate its lack of numbers somehow), and everyone had to know how to fire a weapon. Even schools had, I've heard, a supply of a couple of firearms so that kids could learn how to shoot. That was abolished a few years ago, but the chaos of the nineties' civil war still remains in the memory of many. Every second person had a gun those days because they didn't feel secure without one. I suppose that many of those still exist and work.

This is so true.My parents born 60s had in high school subject called "Одбрана и заштита" (defence and protection -direct translation) .I m still sad my generation didnt have subject like that.

Yep, i am old enough to know first hand, there were "odbrana i zaštita" class in schools here, and there were weapons in side schools to. We learn how to dissasambe, clean, maintence and assembe varius weapons, had classes about varius other weapons, theory about varius Combat Tactics, how to avoid mines (especialy suprise mines, left by "enemy") and similar theme in schools starting form 1st and lasting until 4 th grade (if i remember corectly), and we had all sort of military education, it was basicly pre-military education.
We also had practice shootings in training grounds in urban areas, but that was optional , who ever want to shoot from guns, he can do it every sunday, thats how we get Jasna Šekaric.

[Pepe]

When I was 17, our teacher told us to get warmer jackets when coming to school tomorrow. School was honoring us with free-of-charge target practicing. We just had to bring a short letter of approving it all from our parents. My mother was too petrified to sign, but my father did it ofc.

Next day a school bus took us to the shooting ground, not far from the city. Girls too. We got rifles. Girls too. And we fired from our rifles. Girls too. Actually, girls were particularly happy to hit their targets.

We were all in a THIS IS SPARTA mood for days after that. Just kids, ya know... Some never grow up.

Why am I telling you this? Well, don't fuk with Serbian females, they can shoot your balls at 100m after just 5-10 minutes of aim practising.

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