Posted on 04/13/2024 5:14:14 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Yes. Australia essentially disarmed itself in a referendum years ago.
That happens all too often.
“Hero” cop? WTF, that’s her job.
And another thing. WTF’s this deal with rushing over to apply CPR to these a$$holes. If I’m kneeling down it’s to put one last round to his head to make sure he’s taking a permanent dirt nap.
Yes, that is her job. It doesn't make it any less heroic.
As for the rest - it is part of her job to do everything she can to preserve life. That can sometimes mean taking somebody down to remove a threat to the lives of others. But she's, quite deliberately, not judge, jury, and executioner. Her role comes before all of that.
(In Australia we don't have the death penalty in any case - which I wish wasn't the situation, I believe in capital punishment but only after a fair trial. That's a different situation.).
I suppose “terror” has to have a political aim or component. If this guy was just nuts maybe by that definition it wasn’t. That said I might take a broader definition and say when you have mass murder that alone is terror regardless of whether there is a political element.
Too bad the six who were murdered were denied their fundamental right of self defense by the fanatically antigun Australian government.
Are you allowed to legally carry a concealed handgun in Australia?
Thank god, the assailant only had a knife, not a gun.
Look, I wish somebody had been armed with a gun there.
But at the same time, when I look at the mass shootings that no longer plague Australia (and they did used to) and still plague the United States, I think it’s a bit odd for Americans to be lecturing us on this.
Better she had black tagged him and helped someone else.
If citizens could own handguns, he would have had a handgun or two.
Another “known wolf.” 🙄
Thanks for the details. Glad things aren’t as bad as I’d feared down under! Hope that the consequences of their woke policies eventually shoves folks in your misguided enclaves back to rural common sense. I’d love to see PM’s worthy of John Howard’s shoes again.
No, we didn’t. And there was no referendum on the subject.
” I’d love to see PM’s worthy of John Howard’s shoes again. “
Howard did the gun grab. 700,000 guns confiscated
https://www.vox.com/2016/3/14/11220178/australia-gun-control-john-howard
Sorry, sick of the myth every American has a six shooter on their hip. Out of just over 3000 counties almost all murder and violent crime occur in just 75 counties. Do you have any idea who makes up the majority of the criminal element in those counties? That’s right, black people. If you delete American blacks and Hispanics from U.S. crime statistics it is the lowest in the world. Crime is always driven by culture and American black culture celebrates the worst subhuman filth of their kind.
Generally, no.
But again, it's not quite that simple.
Concealable handguns (basically handguns with a barrel length below a certain value - I'm not going to look it up right now) are 'prohibited weapons'.
But, despite the name, people can get a 'prohibited weapon' licence. It's not easy to get - your average person probably won't be able to - but they do exist.
It's very weird at times - the terminology can give people very understandable false impressions.
(Some states also have 'prohibitions' that other states don't, which they enforce on a variable basis - if a gun is specifically 'prohibited in NSW', that actually means something that is very seriously enforced in that state, and you won't even be able to get any sort of licence for it - at least as I understand it (I'm not any sort of expert of the laws in states other than my own).
“There are more guns in private hands in Australia now than at any time in our history.”
I walk around my property with a 9mm semi-auto pistol, and as I type this there is a .308 semi-auto “assault rifle” within reach of my desk.
I wasn't suggesting that for a moment. I was just pointing out that there is a very big cultural difference between Australia and the United States on gun laws. We've never had the idea here, anywhere in the country, that the ordinary person has any need to carry a gun. It's not part of our frontier mythology, or anything like that.
But the rest of what you are writing, is, in my view, quite ridiculous. Just about any country could lower their crime figures by eliminating certain populations from consideration. The reality is, America has certain problems, as every nation does and they can't be magicked away.
The article you've cited says 650,000 in its headline. A slight exaggeration but one that could be attributed to rounding.
But then the articles exaggerates it further to 700,000...
Why all the exaggeration? Why all the misinformation?
But, yes, John Howard was the Prime Minister who took the decisions that lead to it.
Even if you dislike that decision, doesn't change the fact that on virtually other measure, he was the best Prime Minister and the most conservative Prime Minister, we've had in the last fifty years - and probably second only to Menzies if you go back even further.
Just think about how much deader they would have been if they were shot to death versus stabbed. Gun control works!
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