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 Paintball guns are now seen as firearms, you need a gun licence. That's been law for decades. Gell blasters are also now firearms, quite recently, after one guy went around shooting out of a car. 
 you'll have police inspecting your house for kitchen knives before you know it 
 And our phones for apps. 

Next lockdown, or thereabouts, I'd say. 
 portugal is crappy but madeira is kinda ok, there's no way they'd have an easy time pushing that shit here

in springtime the valleys ring out with the sound of farmers shooting rabbits while their plants are small and tasty... most of the cops can't walk up these hills but all the farmers do this all day long 
 i swear the low iodine and selenium in the soil down there makes people so apathetic and fatalistic

i couldn't stand being in this environment where the lowest were dragging everyone down and not hardly anyone was fighting back

literally so few people i met in australia who actually had any spirit, i could count them on maybe 2 hands and several of them don't live there anymore 
 My grandfather's generation were nothing like us. 

Its not the soil, its the culture.  
 Genes and environment both affect culture and culture to some degree will determine which genes are more prevalent in the next generation, continuing to drive cultural shift.