They're coming for our guns!

Believe it or not, they actually are. Not my guns specifically, as I don't own any, but the guns of Finnish citizens in general.

YLE: Committee Calls for Ban on Semi-automatic Weapons

A committee set up after the 2008 school shooting in Kauhajoki has recommended that Finland ban semi-automatic handguns. It also wants to tighten laws governing gun licenses.

As elaborated in the Finnish media, the government is now preparing to collect all semi-automatic handguns from citizens and ban them. Because the rationale for this is the school shootings, both of which were perpetrated with .22-caliber handguns, they really are going to take away all handguns.

I obviously chose the title of this post to refer to the American gun crowd's perennial fear. The main difference between Finland and the US is that in the States, the Constitution guarantees a right to keep and bear arms, whereas in Finland, the constitution guarantees absolutely nothing at all.

To be specific, 15 § of the Finnish Constitution guarantees the "protection of property", and goes on to add that compulsory purchases of citizens' property are possible "for the general good" and "at full value". So in short, your property is guaranteed protection, except when it isn't.

So not only are they coming for our internets and our speeches, they're also coming for our guns. These are interesting times we live in.