A man with a gun means a hunter, and a psychopath with a gun, we mean a killer. What is the difference? What are the conclusions?

INFORMATION FOR REFLECTION. A warning against hasty conclusions or how the problem of psychopathic shooters has exposed the social problems of society. Analysis of the situation in the country on education, arms trafficking and violence. No sooner had the smoke from the gunpowder evaporated and the blood in the gymnasium No. 175 of Kazan dried, than voices were immediately heard at the highest government level: "Tighten up!", about the rules for the circulation of weapons. All my friends, acquaintances and just sensible citizens were not only alarmed, but also outraged. In this article, I express the general point of view of hunters, heads of hunting farms, hunting biologists, wise people with the life experience from many regions of the country that concerns the issue of such violence. A point of view similar to our position was also voiced on the TVC channel in the program "The Right to Know" from 15.05.2021 with Zakhar Prilepin. But let's find out what is the reason for the periodic outbreaks of gun violence in the country. Hysteria does not contribute to solving the problem, and prevents a competent, logical analysis of the situation with what is happening in the country. A man with a gun is recognized as guilty in most cases. When I talk about “ a man with a gun” I mean the law-abiding citizens who bought weapons legally back in the Soviet era and use them during hunting and moving to hunting. These people know well aware of the danger of firearms and are well informed about the consequences that a violation of safety rules when handling firearms can lead to. These people are instructed several times a year on safety when handling weapons during hunting. Who but hunters can imagine the consequences of violating these rules.     Of course you all have heard about the accidents that occur during hunting and people die from bullets fired from firearms, but… What is the reason for such cases? It's the same. Violation of the rules of handling weapons: shooting at an obscurely visible target, shooting along the line of numbers during a corral hunt, and others. It is necessary to separate cases of violations and disregard of the rules that are UNINTENTIONAL. And cases of deliberate use of weapons for the purpose of murder. In May 2019 two young people were engaged in illegal hunting in local lands. One of them shot a 55-year-old huntsman who arrived with a check. The young people decided that they could do what they want and did not care about the law decided to remove the huntsman from the road in the performance of official duties for the protection of wildlife objects by premeditated murder.       The question: How will the rules for the circulation of weapons be tightened to the citizens who already have it in their hands, but apply it to the people? "The law of the taiga-the bear is the (the one who is stronger or armed) master!” So says one of the proverbs. What can deputies and ministers oppose to this? The conclusion is unambiguous. NOTHING! Where is the cause of the trouble that the civilian population of the country increasingly has to face in cities? None of us hear about the attempts to analyze the situation that has happened in Kazan though is already becoming a pattern. So let's figure it out. It is not the first case, over the past few years, and they are all like a carbon copy. The reasons and motives that drove the lone killers are not disclosed anywhere. Let's try to make a portrait of a 19-year-old killer. We’ll try to make it using the information from the media.     What do we know? He did not pass the session at the technical school and dropped out it. The question: Why wasn't he drafted into the army? The killer's dad was surprised by his son's act. The question: Where his parents were all that time? Did hey seen how their son behaves? Have they noticed that he thinks of himself as a God who can decide the fate of people and can deprive them of their lives, the most innocent category, teachers and children?  The young man wears a mask with the inscription GOD. Do they notice it? He offered his fellow group members to join the sect! The parents leave him alone in the apartment at all and move to another one instead of raising their son. The guy is left alone with his chauvinistic thoughts. It's like a gun in a theatrical performance, if it hangs, it must shoot sometime. There is only one step left before the shot is fired. You have to buy a gun to prove that you are the God.  But first of all you need a medical certificate. He had a mental disease but he received it. But IT WASN’T THE DOCTOR’S FAULT! Was he not brought to justice? And this stage has been passed.     Than one more. District police officer. All hunters know that the district police officer cannot give a permission to purchase weapons without an inspection of the storage site, as well as a conversation with the district police officer himself about the adequacy and ability of storage. The question: Where was the district police officer, who should monitor the entire situation in the territory entrusted to him, including the circulation of weapons? Did he know this guy personally, did he talk to him about life for the adequacy and correct understanding of the laws of the country?  Are there any confirmations of such meetings and conversations? I’m sure that there are none of them. No one reacted to the fact that Ilyaz's neighbor complained about his noisy behavior and ignoring comments. Did you want everything to be like in the West? You got it. Let's speak about the situation in the country with the education of young people. The" beautiful " education reform of Fursenko-Medvedev with its State Exam and the complete denial of the child's ability to have an idea of cause-and-effect relationships.  "The complete absence of cause-and-effect thinking against the background of the twilight of consciousness",- academician, physiologist Pavlov . These words were uttered by him to those who thought that education was tic-tac-toe in post-revolutionary Russia. Livanov - the next minister followed the same way as Fursenko. Then came Vasilieva. People told her that State Exam kills our education but she preferred not to hear it. Maybe she was following someone's command to ignore?! "The very concept of education and upbringing is killing"- said German Gref, who is notorious for his statements about democracy and education. It is clear to everyone that you won't get either knowledge or proper education for a citizen if you sit with your face buried in a computer screen only. The conclusions of the well-known psychologist A. Kurpatov about digital autism, which digitalization leads to, are also ignored. Below are the words of Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Tatyana Moskalkova and expertise. She suggested that gun owners should regularly undergo psychiatric examinations. A.Kurpatova /https://youtu.be/GbLclnu-QGc "The most important task of civilization is to teach humanity to think!” Thomas Edison. The conclusion suggests itself. Citizens are taught to THINK from childhood! The statement of our famous physiologist comes to mind. If no one is engaged in you, no one tells you what is bad, and every evening on the screens of our TV channels you constantly see films about cop wars, robbery, violence, drugs, the beautiful life of thieves, criminals and oligarchs, and their children from the "golden" youth, then what conclusion can a young guy come to who has not yet managed to do anything in this life, and wants to live for the whole ... . None of the deputy corps and members of the government raise the issue of tightening the requirements for TV content. Why? More than 20,000 deaths in road accidents annually. People drive without driving licenses. We hear about accidents with the death of kids and pregnant women! The children of the oligarchs drive in expensive cars, ignoring traffic regulations and the requirements of traffic police officers that are too soft for them. None of the legislators demands not only to deprive such people of their licenses, but also to take their car as a means of increased danger. Just for comparison. A citizen, who are late a little to submit documents for the extension of the hunting permit for his weapons. Or a person walked a dog by the road in hunting grounds. He is deprived the license immediately And not only license but the rifle too. There is a natural question, we have that the Administrative Code is written for different categories of citizens? In fact, this is exactly what it is. A driver can have a lot of fines, besides not paid, and use the car. But a hunter has practically no right to a universal human error or objective circumstances? Why can't he just received a fine and leave the weapon? It’ll help not to load the already overloaded courts with unnecessary work. Because the citizen passed the courses, provided all the necessary documents for re-registration. Why should a hunter undergo this procedure every 5 (five) years, and a driver every 10 (ten) years? What is the difference? Both the car and the weapon are regarded as means of increased danger. But the degrees of these dangers are not separately indicated. Domestic violence is a huge problem in Russia. In 2019, the Ministry of Internal Affairs recorded almost 22K cases of domestic violence against women. 38% of all murders were committed by the husbands, 35% of women have experienced physical or sexual violence of a partner at least once in their lives. 83% of all women convicted of exceeding self-defense defended themselves from their husbands or partners. The murders are committed with household tools, a kitchen knife, an axe, an iron and just with your hands. Should we put a guard on every woman? Or is it better to educate children to respect women?   What should we do?  I am an officer of the motorized rifle troops of the Soviet Army. I was taught to destroy the enemy's manpower with all types of small arms. I can shoot from a pistol, AKM, AK-74, PKK, PKT, RPG-7, BMP-1 guns. My experience of hunting and handling only hunting weapons is 37 years now. It's 46 years if I take into account the training of the initial military training in school and shooting from TOZ-8. In 2019, when re-registering weapons, I was required to take "courses on training in handling weapons". I can teach those who teach me. A motorized rifle officer is taught how to handle weapons. IT’S ABSURD!  There are many people who have the same experience in the country. The question: Why did they invent to teach people who passed through the army, and some through the fighting in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the rules of owning weapons? It’s the complete absence of cause-and-effect thinking. Isn't there another way how to pull money out of our pockets? It's simple arithmetic. The cost of the course is 2500K rub. The price for the certificates for obtaining a license and extending the hunting permit from 3,000 to 5,000 minimum.   The total is about 7-8K rub. The average pension in our county is 10-13K rub. A pensioner has to pay more than half of a pension for the procedures, that were free in the USSR. For the sake to have everything according to the law?! It was free in the USSR! Nobody killed children and teachers in the schools. How it was. I had to come to the drug dispensary. They checked whether I was registered or not. Then they put a stamp in the general reference, and I went on. The same situation was in the neuropsychiatric dispensary. But there I had to visit the doctor. And It was right. The doctor should make sure that you were adequate. All those actions were free. What is now. The issuance of certificates has turned into taking money from the people. There are long lines everywhere. It happens in the public, not private institutions! Why does the state rob its citizens? Is it poor? Why didn't this happen before?   One of the deputies said that only state institutions should issue certificates. But it always was so.   Who has legalized a lot of medical structures outside the state?      The final and the result of all of that we could see on May 11, 2021 at Gymnasium 175 in Kazan. Khinshtein from the State Duma said that all this happened because there was no security at the school!   Dear deputy needed to remember how he went to school, where there was not only no security, but also a watchman at the entrance. There were no cases of shootings of children and teachers in the USSR at all It was so till the last days. Why do they fear of their own people? Any armed person can shoot the guards and enter the school building and continue shooting. The Ministry of Education has signed a contract for protection with Rosgvardiya for 41 million rubles. I have two questions. 1. Who are the officials protected from? 2. Are the safety and lives of officials more expensive than the lives of children? Judging by the video materials, the school killer was walking down the street with an uncovered weapon, waving to passers-by and no one reported it to the police! What is going on with the people? What does the hunters have to do with it? The district police officer did not even talk to the V correspondent and to explain his actions and inaction. Is this person on the guard of the Law? There are more sects in our country than there are religions. The God Kuzya, the God of the Sun and others with a claim to supremacy. And the new one - the God Ilyay (the school killer).  Isn't it time to think about where it all comes from? There was no such thing in the USSR. There was a single nation – the Soviet people with the friendship of peoples and mutual understanding, as well as with respect for elders and children. Look at what is happening in schools. High school students beat up their classmates and bully teachers. All these things are filmed on video and posted on the net. These facts aren’t given much publicity and proper measures are not taken to stop the propaganda of violence. Internet has been created to promote violence. That is the reason why such people like school killers appear. But nobody asks to tighten it up. What has been done for the last time to to ban violence and its propaganda?       Our legislators have taken from the West all the worst that is possible. We bring up children according to individualism, egocentrism, clannishness and the actual segregation of children according to material wealth. The universal moral norms have been blurred though they were the basis of which generations of citizens were brought up and which helped to pull the country out of the devastation of the 20-30s, make an agrarian country one of the leading industrial ones, win the war and restore a great country in the post-war years in just 5 years.   We must find the root of these murders and solve the problem with education, and not shift responsibility to law-abiding citizens and, first of all to hunters. Or it turns out as always: "Why are you looking for a needle here under the lantern? But because it's brighter here!”            Will you compare the statistics of deaths in road accidents, from domestic violence with the use of knives, axes and other household tools with the statistics of deaths during hunting. Mass murders with the use of hunting weapons such as the Kazan case should stand alone, because the killer was not a hunter but a man who have specially bought weapons for a mass act of murder. We must remember once and for all a simple truth: "A WEAPON SHOOTS, BUT A PERSON KILLS!” It is necessary to work on the education of a person and a worthy citizen of the country. This is much more difficult than to ban or to tighten, it will never give the results that society needs. I would like to object to the increase in the age of ownership of weapons. What is the age to receive the driving license? You can get it from 16 years. Age has nothing to do with it. Look to the USA. Children from 10 year old shoot from rifled weapons and go hunting with their parents, get animals. Where is the crime? We like to look to the West. Look to it. A culture of handling weapons has been brought up there from childhood, without any training courses. You can object that there are lots of crimes in the school. Yes, it's so. But we have the same situation. People who are disillusioned with the social system, who have not found themselves in life or are in some kind of moral crisis make these crimes. But these cases are isolated!!! You should not make statistics on this. Here is a way to solve the problem! Once again. It's not about age. He can be 21 years old, but no one has worked or studied with him. He will have the opportunity to buy a gun and to go to kill!   I haven’t heard a proposal to establish courses for training future hunters. There are such courses for hunters in Germany and Austria. They last about six months and people teach how to own both a smooth and a rifled barrel. So called students pass exams in shooting both from smooth and from rifled. Is this the best way to solve the problem?       I suggested organizing such courses back in the early 90s. They were blowing me off. The experience of raising hunters that was available in hunter societies with the issuance of a hunting ticket was "buried". That's is the reason why we have these school- killers now.    If it was as it were in the past, those hunters wouldn’t have the thought or desire to get a hunting ticket, then buy a weapon and to perform that bestial act in a couple of weeks! if there are such courses, a young man will be able to change his thinking in six month, become a real hunter and wont’ go to kill. If they don’t want to go this way, then it is necessary to tighten and simply block content in Internet where they teach how to make bombs and kill people. Should we oppose such terrorism with a legislative framework? In any case, we will not have any progress in solving the issue of mass killings anyway.   The right to own firearms in the United States is enshrined in the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights. In the United States, the population has 396 million legal firearms, or about 124 weapons per 100 people. It is the highest indicator (of the armed population) in the world. The mass demonstrations of the citizens that took place in the USA in last year did not lead to mass killings though many of them had weapon. Because these people were aware of their actions and respected the law and other citizens of their country. One American told me that he always has a gun in his car and his wife also has it. When I asked him why, he said that anyone who wants to attack us for the purpose of robbery or murder would have to think that we might also have weapons for self-defense.   I would like to draw the attention of members of our club, public organizations of hunters to the seriousness of the situation and the infringement of our rights to hunt and own weapons. We are calmly watching how lawmakers and Interior Ministry bodies introduce unjustified restrictions and stricter rules on the possession of weapons by citizens of the Russian Federation. It is necessary to learn how to defend our interests and the right to fair hunting, which is enshrined in many statutory documents of organizations. What do we see now? No matter where it happens, restrictions and prohibitions are imposed only in relation to hunters and hunting!   I want to remind once again how it was in the USSR, Historical experience is a great thing. The one who forgets it gets even more problems. Hunting was a separate branch of the national economy of the country. Glavokhota issued regulatory documents regarding hunting and monitored their implementation. There were professional hunting specialists who knew what was good for hunting and hunters and what was bad. The main hunting users were hunter communities. The system developed by hunters and operated for decades culled people like the Kazan shooter. The future hunter was trained at courses at the communities. The candidate had to enlist the recommendations of two members of the society with experience to become the member.  The candidate for hunters was accepted on the Board of hunters. 1 year of probation period included the presence on hunts without weapons, the assistance in conducting biotechnical events, etc. The society, and not the state one were responsible for the actions and compliance with the laws of the young hunter After issuing a hunting card! Any misconduct was discussed at the disciplinary commission, and there they could decide on disciplinary responsibility, or even exclusion from society with all the ensuing consequences. The transparent system didn't allow random people to hunt and use weapons. Were there the same tragedies as in Kazan? I don't remember. Why? Because the system included the system of public censure, that worked.  What is now? Everything is destroyed. Will you ask the hunting inspector who gave the school killer a hunting permit, how did a 19-year-old citizen get it? Did he know anything about hunting and animals at all? Why did a doctor give a certificate of sanity to a teenager with a brain disease? Where was the district police officer, who had to know every man on his territory who had purchased weapons? It was so in the USSR. The police officers communicated with people and knew everybody who had the inclinations to commit illegal actions, everyone who deserved special attention. One more. We try to understand who in the country is responsible for citizens' access to extremist websites, communities and the dissemination of such information in networks? But we don’t have the answer. But people, especially the young ones have to spend there all days and I talk about e-learning. Go to this site, register. Young people were deprived of a normal education, and most importantly, the ability to think. Now they are developing knowledge storage systems in the cloud. Young people are being taught not to think before! Soon, schoolchildren and young people will no longer need brains. Who is responsible for it? Who? I won’t list these people. Because there are many of them. Who is legally responsible for this? There are no answers? Neural networks are also trying to get into our brains. Some kind of "intelligence" should determine the degree of our trustworthiness?! What about the real communication? "A weapon shoots, but a person kills!” What can I suggest? Look back to the USSR and you’ll find all the ways how to resolve this problem. What we need to do for this! 1. The Internet should not be a source and method of education, and even more so of educating young people. Full-time training and communication with a teacher-mentor, and teachers with their parents ! To introduce strict control and blocking of extremist websites with criminal prosecution of managers. To block all sites whose founders or owners are located outside of Russia. 2. To recognize as valid hunting permits issued by public organizations, not only by the State Hunting Inspectorate. In this case, the share of responsibility will fall on the specific persons who issued these permits. The hunter societies, like no other, are interested in the purity of their ranks. 3. To establish training courses for new hunters. The man has to learn how to drive a car , but there are not special courses for future hunters. At the same time, the weapon is recognized as a more dangerous means of increased danger. It is being withdrawn. But not cars. 4. All legislative acts related to hunting and arms circulation must undergo a national expert examination with the involvement of specialists with proper education. To prevent infringement of the humans’ rights in terms of hunting and possession of hunting weapons in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 3 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The specific proposals for improving the legislation should be sent to the relevant legislative and executive bodies. One more. The largest public organization of hunters is Rosokhotrybolovsoyuz.     It stands aside and does not react to such situations as it's happened in Kazan.  It is extremely important to indicate our position and declare that we are hunters, not murderers, and shift responsibility for what happened to those who do not perform their functions assigned to them by the state! The issue is not the protection of schools or other institutions, but in the proper education of people, blocking extremist websites and other information of this kind and creating an atmosphere of mutual understanding in the country. I would like other clubs and public hunting organizations to speak out and indicate their positions on this situation. I know that many of our representatives of authorities are the members of such societies. I want to ask our authority. "Why did you destroy the best education system in the world?” This system worked for decades without changes and gave the country a highly moral society and outstanding scientists! "We try to reproduce the old Soviet, absolutely useless education system and gave our children a huge amount of knowledge that they don't need. We lost the competition, I must honestly say”. German Gref is the Chairman of the “Sberbank". "Education in the Soviet Union is the best in the world, we need to learn a lot from it. The USSR was able to win the space race at the school desk!” John Kennedy. 35 The President of the United States led the very country with which, we should take an example as say some of our leaders. It’s difficult to understand. Time will judge us. Let’s see. As a result of an attack by a man with a knife near the Railway station in Yekaterinburg, three people were killed, the press service of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Sverdlovsk region reported. This is reported by Rambler. Further: Https://news.rambler.ru/incidents/46428006/?utm_content=news_media&utm_medium=read_more&utm_source=copylink Let’s tighten the rules for selling knives! Life Shot published a correspondence between the school killer and his former classmates that took place five years ago. Where he brought a Soviet recipe for a Molotov cocktail, offered to chip in on the ingredients and burn the math teacher. “She has kids”, - replied to him one of his classmates. This is reported by Rambler. Further: https://news.rambler.ru/incidents/46430427/?utm_content=news_media&utm_medium=read_more&utm_source=copylink   «Ваше благополучие зависит от принятых вами решений»! Jh. Rockefeller. Everything is in our hands, dear hunter friends! Good luck.