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In reply to the discussion: Guess what, liberals? We will NEVER know enough about guns to be "qualified" to write gun laws! [View all]CTyankee
(63,901 posts)Is this what was done in Australia after their mass killing that made them change their laws? Were civilians stripped of all of their guns? And if such a dire thing did not actually happen, did they nonetheless reduce their gun crimes?
*I myself would probably be ok with going back to the 1950s when I was growing up in Texas (that's right, I'm a 3rd generation Texan). I had a mentally unstable aunt who was notorious in our family for carrying around a pistol in her purse. While visiting another of my aunts, in little old Brownwood TX where my uncle was a judge, the gun was taken from her and "put up" for the duration of her visit. My uncle and cousin hunted as I recall but we never saw guns anywhere when we visited. My mother had seen enough shooting in El Paso when she was growing up there so the very idea of carrying a weapon around would have been completely out of the question.