Gun misuse
Why are there so many firearms in the Balkans and how did we get used to it?
|2023.07.25
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People in the Balkans find all sorts of reasons to shoot their guns: weddings, births (or rather, the births of sons given that we are a patriarchal society), feasts, sporting events and more.
One thing we know for sure is that the majority of gun owners are men.
Research shows that men commit these crimes 32 times more often than women, who are murdered five times more often than men in the context of domestic violence.
Kosana Beker
Kosana Beker, PhD is a feminist activist. For years, she has been involved in human rights and anti-discrimination, specializing in the rights of women, children and disabled persons. She has authored numerous papers and studies on anti-discrimination legislation and human rights. Currently, she is working as the program director of women’s civic association FemPlatz as well as an anti-discrimination and gender equality consultant.
This story was originally written in Serbian.