Why America should review its legal scheme…

Raymond 'Red' Reddington
2 min readJun 7, 2020

There’s one map from Wikipedia. Here we can see only one country in the world colored blue (forgive me Yemen, but we have almost nothing to do with you.) Let’s return to this map a few minutes later.

La Haine (1995) [Canal+, Cofinergie 6, Egg Pictures]

“La Haine”, a cult film from french director Mathieu Kassovitz tells a story about three friends — 24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs. During the riots that took place a night before, a police officer lost his handgun in the ensuing madness, only to leave it for Vinz (Vincent Cassel) to find. The whole film (around 100 minutes) concentrated around this gun and the dilemma of whether to use it or not. Many American reviewers marked the movie as ultra-realistic, but let’s see really it is.

At the end of WWII (1942–1944), there’s a death penalty for the firearm. The first attempts to unify laws with EU standards had made in 1993 and only in 1995 (the same year as the movie made) France formed the laws (finally any laws) in favor of arms.

Black Lives Matter Activists: ‘We Just Want To Wake Reno Up’ [kunr.org]

June 2020, started protests against racism in the coronavirus background, protests that had never stopped in order to start again. So why white people are killing black ones in the USA. The answer is obvious — because they can and can easily.

And here’s no matter the color and race of killed people. Returning to our map we see that America is the only country where having a firearm is totally legal. So if you’re American, having a gun is a must in order to protect yourself from others who already have had a gun. Accordingly, when you have a gun and know that each of the surrounded people rather has a gun than no, you start thinking and acting instinctively.

Crash (2004) [Bob Yari Productions, DEJ Productions, Blackfriars Bridge Films]

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