by Olivia Murray
I love my European kinsmen, but I don’t love their smug and uppity attitudes. We get it, they have better food and prettier cities; they’ve been entrusted as the custodians of Western civilization, culture, art, and history (which they’ve done a horrible job at); and they’ve always had less crime, unlike the U.S. with our “gun culture” that’s just so…unenlightened.
But that was the situation before they decided to commit suicide and open their doors to violent hordes of 7th-century savages. Modern Europeans weren’t preserving Western excellence, they were merely riding its coattails—and everything continues to crumble in fantastic fashion.
Remix News reported today that an elderly couple in Spain were brutally physically assaulted by a North African migrant when the wife asked him to turn down his music, which he was, in a moment of peak stereotype, “blasting” in a public elevator. Like the misogynist Islamist he is, he became enraged, because she was a woman who “cannot give [him] orders.” At this point the husband stepped in to defend his wife, so the migrant shoved the woman to the ground, breaking her collarbone, then choked out the husband. (Both husband and wife suffered severe injuries.) The suspect was known to police for his violent history and was quickly arrested, though he was promptly released after appearing before a judge.
Then, we head north into the U.K., and see this, in Sadiq Khan’s London:
Earlier this morning over at Burgess Park.
— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) May 17, 2026
A machete fight in broad daylight.@SadiqKhan will demonise law-abiding Brits who hold different views whilst lawlessness carries on in London.
Shameful. A broken Britain. pic.twitter.com/nXTtDNiLTT
And this:
Today we're off to Lee Green, SE London, where a familiar sight unfolds, as masked-up machete wielding idiots try to kill each other in public. pic.twitter.com/sPOqzGAhc6
— upside down world (@upside_dow2032) May 19, 2026
I wonder if the Europeans are wishing they had the ability to keep and bear arms right about now? Don’t bring fists to a machete fight, and don’t bring a machete to a gun fight.
When I was in my last year of college at the University of Arizona, I ended up getting a job as a paralegal at a local law office. I sat next to a young woman named Deborah, who was from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC. (I presume she had been granted admission to the U.S. as an asylum seeker, along with much of her family.)
Anyway, one day at work, she was preoccupied with the state of things back home as the country’s long-time dictator Joseph Kabila, who was supposed to be permitting elections to happen, was reneging on that agreement. Reports were coming out of the DRC that soldiers were going door-to-door looking for political opposition and murdering them—these reports turned out to be true, as we learned the following year:
‘State agents’ in the Democratic Republic of the Congo carried out 1,176 extrajudicial killings last year, according to a report published by the United Nations mission in the central African country.
The report says at least 89 women and 213 children were among the dead. The number of extrajudicial killings had tripled over the past two years, and Congolese armed forces were responsible for 64% of the total, the UN said.
Now, I already knew the answer, but I was hoping to make a point, so I asked Deborah: “Don’t the people there have guns?”
She scoffed at me, turned up her nose, and said, “Absolutely not, that would be just so…uncivilized.” Mind you, as her kinsmen were being slaughtered in their Kinchasa homes by democidal killers, and the country was set to suffer another period of unchecked violence.
I was the boorish yokel—so pathetically American (barf!) clinging to my guns like some inbred oaf—for even suggesting that the people exercise a right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. Deborah could ride in on her high horse—because she was living in a world where the Second Amendment existed.
I like to think the Europeans are a little more discerning than someone like Deborah and are realizing that guns don’t make for an impolite society but a polite one—though how they can reverse course, I’m not sure.