One could almost say - the news is repeated, year after year, from semester to semester: withdrawn/frustrated teenager - in the jaws of a crisis of meaning, the version for the American province, therefore the "hardest" variant - he came to school with his father/stepfather /friend's gun/rifle and killed innocent students, and for which professor... That narrative already has its own genre drawer in contemporary American film.
Events like the latest one, in Texas, are repeated with astonishing frequency - and one of the consequences is the rekindling of the eternal American polemic for or against free access to weapons. Organizations for the preservation of such rights (in the spirit of westerns and the late XNUMXth century) are so influential and numerous that politicians are very reluctant to confront them, on the contrary, they are happy to take pictures with a rifle and a Stetson hat on the property. However - something is clear: such crimes happen incomparably more often in America than anywhere else in the world. So, whatever the gun lovers and their lawyers say, it is, in large part, a consequence of free access to guns.
Although one of America's greatest writers wrote a novel Goodbye weapons, that phrase seems extremely un-American. But, quite American - and himself Home was a gun lover, he ended up shooting himself in the head. Another proof that nations who do not believe in their great writers, as well as writers who do not believe in themselves, are on a dangerous path.
In some of the texts that accompany such reports, I saw that Montenegro (expectedly, right?) is also very high on the list of countries where it is popular to have weapons.
And the so-called is tiring. The "culture" of weapons: shooting follows you from the time you are born to the time you get married... (The celebration was beautiful - Uncle Milonja fired two cartridges, how many times have you heard some variation of this sentence?)
OK, unhappy history provides an opportunity to find extenuating circumstances for anything. Although most of Montenegrin history makes such fascination understandable - after all, here a few hundred years ago children were born as weapons, not as human beings, individuals - the meaning of social movement is precisely to get out of the zone of tiresome and unnecessary, anachronistic obsessions. To leave to the past what belongs there.
This strange fascination with weapons reached its peak in the nineties of the last century, at the time of the greatest sinking and moral disintegration of this society. (I knew it wouldn't turn out well when, in early XNUMX, a friend, a staunch rocker, endlessly proud of his music equipment, boasted to me that he had sold it all and bought a gun.) Today, however, it is more limited to the world of police and criminals, and, as we have seen, their ridiculous machismo rituals of giving each other guns.
However, there is much less of that in Montenegro today than before. I have a theory that the decline in popularity of handguns here is largely due to the popularity and possibility of competitive competition in - cell phones. So the former Montenegrin with a beret or Zig Zauer became a Montenegrin with an iPhone or Samsung. I guess that's the transition: it still moves, that's the most important thing.
One might say that digital culture suppresses that kind of collective fascination, but one should not be overly optimistic: when the pendulum of history swings to the side of chaos, something as explicitly analog as a gun captivates people again and again.
It is certain that when you encounter any crisis of meaning, a pen can help you much more than a weapon. But it wasn't long ago that you could hear the guys here singing red-hot (they seemed quite happy to me) - I have no will for a song, until I hear the voice of the gun... It is to be hoped that the time has come for Montenegrins to start conquering some different models of exaltation. And that I can, for once, sing without cracking up.
I see it is mugi released? It has to be Vesnini the laws, due to some dangerous inertia, still apply in some places...
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