It’s just comical

Ukranians shooting Russians in the face? Where did you dream up that bollocks?
Russians are killing Ukranians by the thousand.

You can’t really be equating people who don’t normally feel the need to carry guns in their everyday civilian life, but who are taking up arms in the exceptional circumstance that their country has been invaded, with the gun lobbyists and supporters in America who are at no risk of invasion, but who just like the macho culture of gun-toting, because it makes them feel good and they believe it’s their inalienable right to do so, regardless of how many accidents and school shootings happen.

The people in Ukraine are doing so out of necessity to defend themselves, their cities, and their country from being taken over by Russia. They are not doing it just because they think it’s cool to carry a semi-automatic weapon as though it was a fashion accessory. War is hell, and Europe has seen the grim effects of it too often throughout history. The past 77 years is the longest spell in its history that we’ve largely had peace in Europe and most Europeans do not feel the need to carry arms, nor do most European countries even have a police force which is routinely armed. Gun culture is alien to European civilians it’s purely American in nature, even though the risk of the USA being invaded by a neighbouring country is next to nil. Who do you need to be armed against…the Canadians ? the Mexicans? Or maybe it’s your own government, or your neighbour, or maybe just in case somebody you dislike annoys you, and you want to know you’ll be able to shoot them down.

Ukraine is experiencing a “Red Dawn.” A resistance movement, utilizing guerrilla tactics, would seem inevitable if Russia succeeds in its attempt to occupy the entire country. “Wolverines!”