The Damocles Gun: Part II

 

The question of general public safety, in relation to the possibility or - more or less surreptitiously - rights of either owning, carrying or effectively using arms - particularly, and essentially limited to the question of firearms or other "dangerous arms" - and the need for the state to balance these in a manner confirming to the interests of an obscurely defined individual, naturally arises out of the smell of blood and the cries of anguish arising from incidents such as that occurring now . In the Swedish case, with the titular "Damocles gun" being surprisingly hard to translate, this is hardly the case with regard to public safety versus firearms, or gunpowder and incendiary substances more broadly, given the vast . In this regard, the absence of (effective) customs and border controls - despite a generally beneficial geography, the substantial and less substantial land border being near-unused for this purpose and the free entry through the Eastern Sea being increasingly militarised, as the recent miniseries on Soviet (or should I say Russian) submarines and their concurrence with alcoholic beverages testifies -