Posted on 07/07/2018 3:03:44 AM PDT by marktwain
After the Port Arthur rampage mass murder, they sprang the trap.
Now, Australians are trying to clean up the legal mess.
Folks occasionally piss and moan about the NRA, but without that organization, things would be even worse here than in Australia - despite the Second Amendment.
And gee, all because of the actions of someone (Martin Bryant) who should have been locked up in a mental hospital as soon as he reached adulthood as he constantly demonstrated that he simply could not be trusted to live his own life and handle his own affairs in that basic, proper manner we all take for granted.
Yes, and the Australian media went out of its way to incentivize him to commit mass murder.
During the trial, he asked his lawyer, several times, “Did I break the record?”
A while back, I just simply typed in Bryant’s name in a Google search and came across an article about his background (not in Wikipedia) that discussed an incident in which he was about nine years old, he doused himself with lighter fluid (from his father’s supply) and set himself on fire with the father’s cigarette lighter.
He was very seriously burned (as one can imagine) and the incident garnered some local media attention since it involved a young boy doing this sort of very dangerous and bizarre thing. He apparently told reporters (and remember, this is Bryant as a young boy) that he thought it was great fun setting himself on fire and that he would like to try it again sometime.
At least have the courage to look through the media at the sponsors.
That comment wasn’t directed specifically towards you, by the way, but everyone.
At least have the courage to look through the media at the sponsors.
They don’t.
The Media act like a unit because they have a unitary ideology. That ideology is Progressivism, leftism, socialism, or whatever other name you wish to put on it.
The ideology and the leftist agenda are far more important than profit to those in the media.
Nice to hear that it isn't only our media that are incompetent, fake news, lying SOB's.
Like in the US, there are more privately-owned firearms in Australia today than in 1996, and less crime. The only result of Australia’s gun laws has been to restrict its citizens’ liberties
If you can smuggle in drugs, you can smuggle in AK’s.
The only result of Australia’s gun laws has been to restrict its citizens’ liberties.
Worth repeating
It’s hard to understand when they have a frontier heritage not unlike ours, but Australians seem to be largely happy with the loss of their freedom.
But one thing both sides miss when they compare American gun laws with the rest of the world’s is that we have always been unique in that our citizens are armed. As Madison wrote in Federalist 46, “the advantage of being armed” is one “the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.” It is one of the things that has always made us exceptional.
The American news media primed the pump for the 1968 GCL here. Anyone remember the hysterics they went into back when John Kennedy and later Bobby Kennedy were killed?
I cannot help but believe that California released Pat Purdy from a mental institution just so they would have incentive to pass their handgun registration and “As-s-s-ault rifle ban.”
This was just a few years after the citizens of California turned down a handgun registration and ban scheme back in 1982. Prop 15.
“The American news media primed the pump for the 1968 GCL here. Anyone remember the hysterics they went into back when John Kennedy and later Bobby Kennedy were killed?”
And MLK too.
The 1968 GCA and the run up to it marked the beginning of the gun control battles we’ve been fighting ever since. The GCA screwed me out of a cherry Hi Power and PPK which I picked up in Germany but couldn’t legally bring back. Will never forgive Lyndon Bastard Johnson for that one.
“Australia is an incredibly law abiding country. There is very little crime, and a very low homicide rate.”
Well I watched a documentary once about the aussies. Lots of shooting and killing. Those people are violent. I think it was called “Mad Max”.
We are probably describing different views of the same phenomena.
Lots of Alumni in Companies are Progressives. Lots of companies have been willing to put the Progressive agenda ahead of profits.
Look at the stupidity of Dick’s move to drop AR15 rifles.
The ideology is the biggest problem, IMHO.
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