Recently,
Romanian law givers directed their attention to the private weapons
ownership. Eager to find the means of increasing the efficiency of private
property protection and especially to harmonize Romanian legislation
with its European homonym, the Romanian parliamentarians enacted a law
which prohibits the private possession of guns. Although the very desire
to reproduce European legislation dwarfs any further discussions, the
senators and deputies tried nevertheless to debate the efficiency of
weapons ownership for private property protection. At the same time,
insisting to prove by means of hypothetical and historical arguments
the efficiency of either allowing the private weapons ownership or the
opposite, the Romanian rulers put the discussion in a context where
no arguments can ever be decisive. This article carries forth an argument
which, albeit fundamental for the debate of private weapons ownership,
was entirely benighted.