Yeah, Spain is great, attacking its own citizens-
Catalonia Shows the Danger of Disarming Civilians | Laura Williams
Just hours before an alleged lone gunman opened fire from the Mandalay Bay casino, the citizens of a small region surrounding Barcelona, Spain, cast a vote for their regional independence. Catalonia’s citizens have a unique language, culture, and history, and consider Spain a neighboring power, not their rightful rulers. So as America’s Continental Congress heroically did (and as Texans and Californians occasionally threaten to do) Catalonia wished to declare independence and secede.
Spain has enacted, it would seem, the kind of “common sense restrictions” American gun-control advocates crave.
Polling stations in Catalonia were attacked by heavily armed agents of the state with riot gear and pointed rifles. Spanish National Police fired rubber bullets and unleashed tear gas canisters on voters, broke down polling center doors, disrupted the vote, and destroyed enough ballots to throw results into serious doubt.
Exceedingly few of those would-be patriots were armed.
In Spain, firearm ownership is not a protected individual right. Civilian firearms licenses are restricted to “cases of extreme necessity” if the government finds “genuine reason.” Background checks, medical exams, and license restrictions further restrict access. Licenses are granted individually by caliber and model, with automatic weapons strictly forbidden to civilians. Police can demand a citizen produce a firearm at any time for inspection or confiscation. Spain has enacted, it would seem, the kind of “common sense restrictions” American gun-control advocates crave.
But of course, that doesn’t mean that Spanish citizens don’t buy guns. In fact, Spanish taxpayers maintain an enormous arsenal of weapons, which are all in the hands “professional armed police forces within the administration of the state, who are the persons
in charge of providing security to the population.”
Those agents of the state weren’t “providing security to the population” of Catalonia on Sunday — they were pointing guns at would-be founding patriots who had challenged the rule of their oppressors.
Gun control does not stop criminals. Gun control of not allowing security officers there be armed gave this guy free reign.
OMG So awful. Why can people see we need to have strict gun control? My God!
Gun control stops this kind of massacre. I am currently in Spain. They have very strict gun control and automatic and semi-automatic weapons are banned for private citizens. There are NO mass shootings and crime is very low. It's a lie that banning guns means only criminals will have them. A lie. This guy wasn't a criminal. He was just an average guy like any of you who can get a gun. Who never commited a crime before. You people are nuts, insane. Stop this madness.
