My dad was working in the police when I was a kid and I used to watch him clean the gun (if that's the proper term) but I always had to keep my distance even though I never even thought about playing with that thing because I knew it wasn't a toy. However, my 13 years older brother played with the gun once and the gun shot into the closet, there is still a bullet hole there and he never touched it again in his life. For me, as a kid, it was a reminder that guns are not meant to play with.

I was born in Croatia just few months before the war started so when I was about 6, I was playing with the wooden gun my brother made me and it was fun back then. I also remember the story about two brothers who went to the nature/woods in the village where we used to live and they found post war guns and one of them shot the other by accident in the leg.

Then few months after we moved to Serbia, NATO bombing started, something I don't like to remember. I don't watch TV or news because they are filled with reports about violence. I've noticed that the teenage agression is a real problem here in Serbia - kids in school stab or beat each other up. They go out, get drunk and look for a fight. Sometimes I honestly feel scared of having and rasing a child, and to feel that way makes me sad.

Also the number of murders within family/marriage is something I cannot process in my mind. "Husband killed his wife and then himself" and jealousy being the main reason is also something you can hear a lot around here and it's disturbing.

Another thing I want to mention are Hollywood movie scenes where someone goes to a shop and buys a gun, it always looked to easy in the USA.

Sorry for my long, random and all over the place comment. :)