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In reply to the discussion: Why gun control is doomed [View all]Violet_Crumble
(35,961 posts)That's coz it has zero to do with the gun control laws. Same goes for a rise in sexual assault.
If you think that before the laws were introduced that Australians all wandered round carrying guns ready to repel criminals, yr wrong. It's never been like that here...
Interesting. I went and did a google and didn't find plenty at all, not unless you count two as plenty. My point was that the gun related accidents and violence that are almost a daily happening in the US don't happen frequently in other Western countries that have gun laws.
I don't know where yr getting some of those stats you've used in yr posts from, but what I do know is that when it comes to stats it's been very hard to measure if any rise or lowering of stats is connected with the gun buy back scheme. There's only one stat that's absolutely, concrete provable, and that's the fact that in the years leading up to the new laws there was on average one mass shooting a year. Since then there's been none. So, what was intended worked, which is good coz I feel like the extra 1% or so I paid on my Medicare Levy that helped pay for the scheme (the Constitution has this bit that says if the government takes private property it must give compensation) was money well spent. I'm the last person to praise a conservative government for anything they do, but the Howard government deserves praise for getting the states and territories on board and making it happen instead of doing all the pointless handwringing and weak attempts to maybe talk about possibly doing something that US politicians do every time there's a mass shooting. And they get to do that a lot...
I've got a question. Pretend for a moment that yr the PM of Australia back in 1996 in the aftermath of Port Arthur. You know something needs to be done. As you said that you'd do things differently and better, how would you have done that? I'd be interested in knowing...
Heh, I've never encountered anyone before who's afraid of winning the lottery. Me, I know someone who did. I also know someone who was involved in a mass shooting. There ya go...