Posted on 09/23/2021 2:36:50 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Harrowing footage from Australia reveals police enforcing lockdown laws with all the fervor of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. The images we watched out of China – at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic – are now being replicated on the streets of Western nations.
After 35 people were killed in the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996, the Australian government moved swiftly to ban pump-action shotguns and semi-automatic rifles. While – as Matt Palumbo notes – the number of guns in the country actually failed to decline all that much in the proceeding years, the types of guns available to the public along with the groups of people owning them prove the importance of America’s Second Amendment.
Per the University of Sydney, “the proportion of Australians who hold a gun licence has fallen by 48 percent since 1997,” and “the proportion of Australian households with a firearm has fallen by 75 percent in recent decades.”
It’s not much use, in the face of authoritarianism, to have a prevalence of handguns owned by a small section of society. Congressman Matt Gaetz made this point in a Fox News interview in 2019, rattling the cages of the pseudo-fact checkers whose gloating words are now staring them right back in the face.
“Nobody would suggest that in the United States we would want Australia’s solution. There they went and confiscated all the guns. You know who did what Australia did? Venezuela. And now their people can’t fight back when they are having to fight their way out of a socialist dictator.”
– Rep. Matt Gaetz, 2019
Indeed the left media has gloated about disarming Australians for the past 25 years, op-eds in The Atlantic, Fortune magazine, and studies by left-wing think-tanks have tried to foist Australia’s gun laws on America. The Guardian called Australia’s laws a “gold standard.” Vox has been hyping them, too:
“Semi-automatic rifles and shotguns were prohibited, with a few exceptions, all firearms were required to be registered, a proof of reason would be required for all gun-licence applicants and gun purchases, with self-defence not considered a reason.”
– The Guardian, April 2021
All this despite Australia’s own Ambassador to America admitting such moves had no place in the United States.
“Australia and the United States are completely different situations, and it goes back to each of our foundings. America was born from a culture of self-defense. Australia was born from a culture of ‘the government will protect me.’ Australia wasn’t born as a result of a brutal war. We weren’t invaded. We weren’t attacked. We weren’t occupied. That makes an incredible difference, even today.”
– Australian Ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey
Now, just 25 years after Port Arthur, Australians are being shot on the streets by their own government.
The bullets may be rubber, or “non-lethal” as they euphemistically call them. But they’re being fired at Australian citizens who have the audacity to want to… go outside. To leave their homes. To live life as normally as they can despite the state’s insistence of locking people in their own homes and creating a culture of fear around the Chinese Communist Party’s virus.
Naturally, The Guardian is now siding with the jack-booted thugs firing into the backs of their own people as they run away. This is the same Guardian that called the police break-up of a violent riot outside the White House a “brutal” dispersal.
Of course holding the left to its own standards is a hiding to nowhere. But every American should consider it their duty to hold their fellow citizens to the standards outlined in the nation’s founding document – the Constitution of the United States:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
– Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 1791
Americans, let Australia be a lesson, but not in the way the left has suggested for nearly three decades.
Never, ever, never give up your guns.
The second amendment is THE hill on which we fight and die.
The easiest repeating firearm in the world to make is an open bolt SMG.
Just sayin’.
Molon Labe
Now, just 25 years after Port Arthur, Australians are being shot on the streets by their own government.
I’m not there. I haven’t been shot with rubber bullets or pepper sprayed by the local cops. Meaning, I’m not 100% sure, exactly what I’d do. Although I’m pretty sure I would do what I think I would do.
That being said, there are more Aussie’s protesting than there are cops. There’s no reason, whatsoever, that any of those cops should still be standing. Everyone of those cops should be pummeled, at this point.
One of the things that makes me curious is, where do all the cops live? One would think that if they’re cops in that area, that they probably live in that area. And they’re shooting rubber bullets at their neighbors, presumably. That’s insane.
Everyday liberty. That’s the hill.
“After 35 people were killed in the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996...” Hells bells, that’s just a holiday weekend in ChiCongoLand.
Maybe but we have pretty much let the first get away from us. Why will the second be different?
Australians are being managed by Satan’s children.
May Almighty God deliver them from evil, as it clearly is a fight of the Righteous versus the Liars and Criminals.
Amen!
Karma for the left
So what is going on in Australia? View from an Australian Freeper
Maybe the Aussies will wake up and realize they have no delineated rights in their constitution and do sumthin’ about it. But I doubt it.
Heh; that’s just one of 3 days.
It is the only thing which has prevented a complete authoritarianism being thrusted on us. We are on the path but there is still a slight hesitation but know this, while we are living our lives, the tyrants continue to ‘plan’ on methods to eliminate the 2nd Amendment, gun ownership and ultimately, us.
That is exactly right. What’s the point in having a second amendment if we aren’t willing to defend the first? Once they get the invaders entrenched in their new digs and ready to fight for their new found gravy train, the second will fall pretty quickly.
Governments plan for this line of thinking. The French have a police force composed of rural officers. This police force is brought in whenever urban regions are holding demonstrations. It is well understood that the "country bumpkins" have no qualms about knocking the city folk around. And the "country bumpkins" need not fear having anyone locate their homes in some far away place.
Now the left is cheering even louder. They are despicable people. But their day will come, and it won’t come from conservatives, but rather the same people they are cheering for now.
There is never a shortage of evil human beings who are perfectly willing to beat, main and murder their fellows. Most seem just like normal people when they don’t have the power to do so. but when these vicious cowards get together and have the imprimatur of govt, look out.
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