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2016-12-05 -Land of the Free
What Australia can teach America about guns?
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Posted by badanov 2016-12-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1  As an Australian, I have often considered the United States as the leader of the international stage, however I believe there is something that Australia has done that puts it ahead of the United States - the control of firearms.

We left English control only because of guns. You didn't. You may speak something of a kindred language but you still lack a kindred birth of independence. Ours wasn't granted. It was taken by force. And its been understood since that beginning, that the gun in the hands of its citizens made it possible.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-05 00:06||   2016-12-05 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 The delusion starts with the idea it takes a gun to end a life.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2016-12-05 00:20||   2016-12-05 00:20|| Front Page Top

#3 But here is the irony in the situation, Americans feel the need to carry guns for self defense, but if there were no guns in the first place...

See Chicago--the laws that are already in place aren't enforced. Until the criminals are denied the guns they possess, leave the rest of us (law abiding citizens) the hell alone.
Posted by Crusader 2016-12-05 01:03||   2016-12-05 01:03|| Front Page Top

#4 As an Australian yes 640,000 firearms were destroyed but shooters purchased 400,000 new ones to replace them. it is known from import and manufacture there are 5 million firearms however only HALF of these are registered. Illegal handguns used by criminals are on the rise as criminal dont like the idea of complying with firearm laws
Posted by Sundown 2016-12-05 04:35||   2016-12-05 04:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Who has a bigger migration problem than the US?
Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-05 09:42||   2016-12-05 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 The writer forgot to add that the areas with most stringent gun control have the highest gun murder and violence against helpless (unarmed) victims.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-12-05 09:57||   2016-12-05 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 faith and feelz

Who loves Silly Putty and Plato
Like critical tinkers with credo?
Resist the marshmallow?
If hungry, this fellow
Could wish a turd into potato.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-12-05 11:47||   2016-12-05 11:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Oops. Looks like it's a sheila. Sorry.

When hogs are disarmed... jambalaya!
The Jews? Well, there's still the messiah.
Inquire of the Maya,
A Hindoo pariah,
And tell 'em all "Hiya!" 'Bye, Kaia.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-12-05 11:56||   2016-12-05 11:56|| Front Page Top

#9 As an Australian

Welcome, Sundown! We do enjoy our Ozzie cousins, and it's always nice to add knowledgeable voices to the conversation. :-)
Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-05 12:18||   2016-12-05 12:18|| Front Page Top

#10 There is something about America that makes the ownership of guns ordinary, and mass shootings normalized.

At first read, this piece could be dismissed as simply written by someone with ignorance of acknowledged US liberties. Many individuals have been conditioned to believe that "rights" are asked for and then granted by a benevolent monarch or goverment. However, the informal association fallacy above reveals this as just another attempt to peddle the usual anti-second ammendment trash from an outsider perspective. Do your business and move back to your safety zone sister.
Posted by DepotGuy  2016-12-05 12:25||   2016-12-05 12:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Another lefty peddling discredited ideas and failure.

What a surprise.
Posted by DarthVader 2016-12-05 14:53||   2016-12-05 14:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Oz started out as a prison - well on the way to returning to its roots with this kind of thinking
Posted by Jack de Medici2548 2016-12-05 14:59||   2016-12-05 14:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Apparently lefties are the same worldwide, their way is better and facts are fungible or forgotten.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-12-05 17:15||   2016-12-05 17:15|| Front Page Top

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