With the recent shootings at Virginia Tech, the issue of gun control in the United States has naturally resurfaced. In the United States any individual over the age of 18 has the right to bear arms and buying a gun legally is hassle-free. There are over 200,000,000 legally registered guns in the country, that’s more than the number of adults in the entire nation. The Second Amendment to the Constitution gives the right to American citizens to bear arms and as we see many do. Most civilians claim that they own firearms for personal safety and I guess that could be a valid point but the thing is since it is so easy to buy a gun, and the guy at the department store selling a rifle really couldn’t care less whether you’re lying about buying a gun to kill human beings by saying it’s for your own protection. He just wants to get commission from selling the gun.

So there’s your basic information for why guns are allowed in the United States but then if so many people are complaining and rightfully so if I say so myself, why haven’t gun control laws changed? The politicians and the government tells us it’s because we would have to change the Constitution and that that would be wrong, but we have to take this argument with a pinch of salt and realize that every government on Earth is in at least some way corrupt, with the US government definitely not an exception to that rule. The US government is a democracy and has many politicians in every state making and editing laws. There have been numerous alterations to the US Constitution in the past and changing a gun control clause is very possible. And this is where my opinion comes in. Who are these politicians running our government? Most of them are businessmen. A lot of businessmen (and women) go into politics in some point of their life because it gives them the power to make life better for themselves and their respective companies/business sectors. Let’s take a very appropriate example of a politician who owns a firearm factory. Somehow this person gets into government and has a high enough position to have some influence on which laws get passed and which ones get rejected. Now say for example there is a new bill vowing for banning guns in the state that the politician has jurisdictional power over. This politician is going to make damn sure that this bill never gets passed by any means. If it does get passed, then his company is out of business, and he becomes that much less of an entrepreneur. Not to mention the fact that he becomes poorer; and we all know he doesn’t want that, it’s the reason he became a politician in the first place. The world revolves around money, and greed brings corruption. When corruption enters the political world, it’s like a metal rod being stuck into gears. The smooth operation of government is stopped and instead corruption rules.

And that ladies and gentlemen is why guns aren’t banned in the United States and why we have so many unnecessary deaths like the massacre at Virginia Tech. Our government is run by politicians who are more like businessmen than the former. They make laws that suit themselves, not ones that make the world a better place. Of course this assumption can’t be applied to everyone in government, there are exceptions and people in the government and are honest and truly are trying to improve the nation. But the ones who don’t are the reason shit happens in the world and the sad thing is that this is not going to change anytime soon.

Thanks once again to my friend’s genius, I was able to get into the Hong Kong Stadium to watch the Rugby Sevens for most of Sunday! And it was much, much better than Friday. The stadium was packed full, almost all the seats were taken and the crowds were wild.

I was supporting Russia and was really amazed and ecstatic that they won the Bowl by beating France in the final. I was sitting at the top of the East Stand in an area crowded with a lot of French singing things like “Stand up if you hate the French” and go Russia. I joined in and cheered for Russia. Once the team won, I rad down to the ground level of the East Stand and got to shake one of the Russian player’s hands and talk to him. The Russian team was also really happy and celebrated a lot. Russia won 21-7.

After the Bowl final, it was time for the Plate final between Wales and Argentina. Both teams played well but Wales came out as the winner in the end and I got two autographs from players I don’t even know.

The grand finale of the Sevens was the Cup Final where the multiple-time Hong Kong Sevens champions Fiji took on the Samoans. When I just first saw the Samoans playing on Friday evening I knew they were going to go far and they went all the way. The Samoans dominated the first half by scoring four tries and the Fijians looked like they were out of it. But after halftime the Fijians just started coming back.They managed to score three tries with little time remaining, scoring two tries just a couple of minutes apart. The final score was 27-22 with Samoa the new HK Sevens champions but I must say that Fiji dominated the second half and if they were given maybe two minutes more may have even won the game.

After the finals, there was a closing ceremony with fireworks and everything and in total about a dozen people ran onto the field at different times on that Sunday evening. Some were caught by the guards but others were lucky and escaped. It was hilarious to watch the guards trying to tackle the big foreigners and sometimes more than three guards were needed to control one fan.

Going to the Sevens is something spectacular and I’ll definitely be going there again next year. The atmosphere is something that can’t be experienced anywhere else in Hong Kong and even after the hordes of people came out of the stadium, many were still singing “Hey Baby” all the way to the MTR.

The Sevens is the shit!