Conrad73: It's insane,considering EU's restrictive Firearms Code,yet some Nut is able to get hold of Grenades!
Restrictive Firearms Code? In Brussels, you can buy an AK47 Kalashnikov for 2,000 euros, an Uzi for 5,000 and rocket launcher 15 or 20,000. Brussels has become a war zone and Molenbeek (an outskirt) is so bad that even the cops dare not patrol there too often. Schaerbeek (another outskirt) has been bad since the eighties with drugs, gangs and violence on a daily basis... Restrictive Firearms Code, lol... How would the arms peddlers make any money if the authorities were really serious about protecting the populace?
Mermaidon: Restrictive Firearms Code? In Brussels, you can buy an AK47 Kalashnikov for 2,000 euros, an Uzi for 5,000 and rocket launcher 15 or 20,000. Brussels has become a war zone and Molenbeek (an outskirt) is so bad that even the cops dare not patrol there too often. Schaerbeek (another outskirt) has been bad since the eighties with drugs, gangs and violence on a daily basis... Restrictive Firearms Code, lol... How would the arms peddlers make any money if the authorities were really serious about protecting the populace?
wow... ... even if they're not full-auto, sounds like my kind of place !....
Mermaidon: Restrictive Firearms Code? In Brussels, you can buy an AK47 Kalashnikov for 2,000 euros, an Uzi for 5,000 and rocket launcher 15 or 20,000. Brussels has become a war zone and Molenbeek (an outskirt) is so bad that even the cops dare not patrol there too often. Schaerbeek (another outskirt) has been bad since the eighties with drugs, gangs and violence on a daily basis... Restrictive Firearms Code, lol... How would the arms peddlers make any money if the authorities were really serious about protecting the populace?
So true, I can walk into any park and buy myself a Kalashnikov; they're easier to buy than a decent jar of peanut butter
sleepin_bird: So true, I can walk into any park and buy myself a Kalashnikov; they're easier to buy than a decent jar of peanut butter
I wouldn't go as far as saying that Although peanut butter isn't Belgians' favorite stuff... I hope you don't walk into parks alone at night, especially le Park Botanique...
Mermaidon: I wouldn't go as far as saying that Although peanut butter isn't Belgians' favorite stuff... I hope you don't walk into parks alone at night, especially le Park Botanique...
You're right I was just thinking about the stuff my colleagues always ask me to buy whenever I go over to the Netherlands to visit family... and it does seem easier to get your hands on the illegal stuff sometimes. I'm quite careful these days after being beaten up in broad day light at la Bourse and nobody lifting a finger to help. It made me a bit more cynical but you can't live your life in fear of these nutters... I've felt safer walking the Bois de Boulogne in Paris at night though
sleepin_bird: Thanks for your sympathy. I have several girl friends in Brussels who tell me similar stories, about being mugged and assaulted, sometimes even in cabs. When we go out, we always make sure we're in a group; it helps. It's a bizar world...
Yes, and I've given up trying to understand it or the beings in it... All I know is that no thing and no one are what they seem to be and every time you take something or someone at face value or for granted is when you've stepped in BIG doodoo, and then anything can happen, really anything.
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Thoughts are with family and friends...
My sister just escaped that this morning, it happened 5 min. after she took her bus to work! Nuts...