Australia enacted strict gun control and they haven't had a massacre since then. (Reply #6)

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Tue Jan 15, 2013, 04:11 PM

6. Australia enacted strict gun control and they haven't had a massacre since then.

Your precious toys are still available in Australia, but they are highly regulated. Gun control works. We can stop having routine massacres if we want to.

The comparison to prohibition is specious.

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66 replies	Author	Time	Post
A historical reminder for Prohibitionists of all stripes [View all]	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	OP
Exactly, we should do nothing because if we did something we might make a mistake n/t	Fumesucker	Jan 2013	#1
Almost no one is proposing a prohibition.	JoePhilly	Jan 2013	#2
The temperance movement didn't start out as the "enforced teetotaling" movement.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#22
Ahhh ... so because THAT happened, we must shrug and do nothing ...	JoePhilly	Jan 2013	#27
You're going to DROP the 20 to 25% of Americans that own guns from the discussion?	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#35
You seem confused ... since I did not say drop ALL gun owners from the discussion.	JoePhilly	Jan 2013	#39
You lot seem confused about the NRA and me. I don't dig them at all, and disagree with them...	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#48
Sigh...	backscatter712	Jan 2013	#3
Excellent response.	99Forever	Jan 2013	#16
By all means! n/t	backscatter712	Jan 2013	#26
Tanks, me likie! n/t	99Forever	Jan 2013	#28
What? No "NRA talking point(s)"? -1 for insufficient use of...	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#37
+100	TeamPooka	Jan 2013	#54
You live in fear. You respond to fear and you	upaloopa	Jan 2013	#4
A reminder for morons: Drugs and booze are not guns.	Spider Jerusalem	Jan 2013	#5
But the culture war against those that use them are almost the same.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#18
Not really, no	Spider Jerusalem	Jan 2013	#24
in other words	DonCoquixote	Jan 2013	#59
Not exactly	Spider Jerusalem	Jan 2013	#63
Waaaaait a minute. You mean a gin and tonic is not the same as an assault weapon? Now I'm all	Squinch	Jan 2013	#55
Australia enacted strict gun control and they haven't had a massacre since then.	Warren Stupidity	Jan 2013	#6
Australia never had a gun culture like ours, or a culture war surrounding their guns.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#19
Mexico enacted strict gun control and they haven't had a massacre since - oh, wait...	derby378	Jan 2013	#21
And Mexico is largely anarchic and run by drug cartels.	Spider Jerusalem	Jan 2013	#30
I'm okay with legalizing marijuana - that would help make a dent in trafficking	derby378	Jan 2013	#52
See post 87. eom	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#7
Snort!	Squinch	Jan 2013	#56
Nobody is taking away your guns.	Taverner	Jan 2013	#8
Shhhhhhhh!!!	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#11
prohibit,mandate,compel,comply? i don't think so...	green for victory	Jan 2013	#9
So true.	CalFresh	Jan 2013	#10
Those Prohibitions were bad and ill intentioned but ours is noble and enlightened	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 2013	#12
President Obama believes in prohibition	Fumesucker	Jan 2013	#13
Some here clearly do	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 2013	#15
Is this about the prohibition of child porn? Are you saying we should just allow it?	DanTex	Jan 2013	#14
Child porn is nowhere near as popular (thank YHPOC!) as guns and booze.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#17
It might be, if it wasn't, umm, prohibited.	DanTex	Jan 2013	#23
I rather doubt 20-25% of the population would be into child porn.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#31
Wait, wait, wait, I thought the OP was against "prohibitionists of all stripes"!	DanTex	Jan 2013	#38
I am neither for nor against. I point out they rarely turn out they way they are supposed to.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#41
What do you mean "they"?	DanTex	Jan 2013	#46
I rarely drink, gave up on cannabis long ago, and own no guns.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#49
Yes, we know that you really hate prohibition.	DanTex	Jan 2013	#51
So the badness of the prohibition is dependent on how popular the prohibited item is?	Squinch	Jan 2013	#57
I don't think keeping dogs off the liquor will really hurt us any....	snooper2	Jan 2013	#20
moderation in all things n/t	RainDog	Jan 2013	#25
True. The gun Prohibtionists will "represent" all gun control advocates, just as...	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#45
Thank You	Berserker	Jan 2013	#29
Not only do they forget history, they forgot Santayana:	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#42
I know what you'e talking about	bongbong	Jan 2013	#32
Well well well	alcibiades_mystery	Jan 2013	#33
I'm sure that the 80 million gun owners in the US will be perfectly happy to...	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#36
You are going to need a lot more Straw.	JoePhilly	Jan 2013	#40
Yeah yeah, we know- "This one will be different!"	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#43
I find if you keep the TV turned down low enough, you can hear the Helicopters	JoePhilly	Jan 2013	#44
I rather doubt it will happen, personally. You might, however, wish to have a word or two...	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#47
Most, 99%, will be fine with any new regulations.	Warren Stupidity	Jan 2013	#53
And some of the extremists	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#58
They already are over the NYS law.	Warren Stupidity	Jan 2013	#60
Looks like there will be a lot of 'em PePpeReD soon.	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#61
Slipping and sliding down the slippery slope! Just one step & it's all over!	maxsolomon	Jan 2013	#34
I know. Machine gun prohibition turned out so fucking awful, right?	EOTE	Jan 2013	#50
Machine guns were never owned by many, nothing like semi-auto proliferation.	TheKentuckian	Jan 2013	#62
Ahhh, so it's only because of the proliferation of semi-autos that this wouldn't work.	EOTE	Jan 2013	#64
Common use is a threshold whether you like it or not, has ZERO to do with "good",	TheKentuckian	Jan 2013	#65
Common use is a bullshit indicator of whether or not something should stay.	EOTE	Jan 2013	#66

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