Nathan Hegedus reflects on his own experience living in Croatia in the 1990s:
[H]ere is why I still worry about guns, even if they are not the root of anything, and this is almost purely grounded in my time in [Pakrac, Croatia]. Guns are not an idea or a prejudice or an emotion. They will not pass like opposition to gay marriage or dangerously moronic views on rape. They are objects, and they will endure. They get stolen, sold, found, and washed into the loneliest, least connected places, where they do the most damage. And at some point, violence has the potential to build beyond murder to something even worse—riots, wars, pogroms—and then I say that a concentration of guns does matter, too much tinder to be ignited by too small a spark.
The Dish 