“ Australia is simply returning to the good old days of its prison colony beginnings.”
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I don’t understand what’s going on Down Under. I’ve known and worked with several Aussies over the years and none of them would have tolerated the crap occurring now….
You kind of have to, when you are disarmed.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said it best, I paraphrase. “Liberalism must give way to socialism. Socialism gives way to communism.”
It’s the nature of progressivism to get people to flirt with government interventionism and wait for the opportunity to take control.
Many FReepers, including me, have said that an armed society without the will to use them fails the same as a disarmed society. At some point, many argue that point has past, armed Americans have to stand up and say, "Enough." Or yes, Australia is our fate.