Posted on 03/17/2021 7:14:54 AM PDT by Onthebrink
Australia instituted these strict laws following the April 1996 mass shooting at Port Arthur, in which gunman Martin Bryant took the lives of thirty-five people using an AR-10 semi-automatic rifle. Bryant’s motivation was reportedly based on the failure to buy a bed and breakfast property but also to become “notorious.”
The shooting outraged the nation, and soon Australia introduced comprehensive gun control. It was led by then Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who had only taken office six weeks earlier at the head of a center-right coalition. Howard came to the decision that firearms were simply too easy to obtain and there were just too many of them.
“We have an opportunity in this country not to go down the American path,” Howard announced, and he radically changed Australia’s gun laws. According to supporters of gun control, those efforts rid the country of gun violence on a large scale.
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They will and can try.
Good luck with that.
Americans had no problem complying with the masks, the lockdowns, and the curfews.
Make the consequences for gun law violation draconian enough, and millions will turn theirs in.
That moment when you realize your Second Amendment rights depend upon the moral courage of Joe Manchin...
[ Now is the time to identify THOSE WHO WILL GIVE THE ORDERS should that gun-grab be attempted. At the first sign of confiscation they must start having “accidents” or just disappear. Killing them horribly and publicly will only put the rest on notice and render their removal more difficult. ]
Once that Rubicon is crossed, there’s no point in limiting justice the the order-givers. The professors, journalists, activists, strategists, political consultants, donors, et al are just as culpable. Moreover, they’re all “soft” targets.
John Roberts used the excuse not to hear any election rigging cases that it would cause violence to rule in such a case. I could very easily see this nitwit using the same argument to reinterpret the 2nd Amendment...
Bundy Ranch and thousands of armed Americans confronting the fat-boy federal bureaucracy speaks to a factual event rather than the speculative BS narrative you’re trying to spin.
The left’s BLM shock troops have been arrested and prosecuted under the southern state’s anti-klan laws and sent to state prison.
Thousands of armed Americans showed up in town squares across America to confront the Antifa weenies this past summer.
And Mexicans in Cicero, IL on May 31 beat the crap out of BLM thugs who tried to burn their neighborhoods and businesses.
Like making FREE people stay home and wear masks?
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