That makes them sound soft and squishy, like nerf balls.
They are very hard PLASTIC bullets, and they penetrate skin to the bone, leave scars, and will destroy an eyeball resulting in blindness.
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.
"Plumber's Delight"...
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“And the “country bumpkins” need not fear having anyone locate their homes in some far away place.”
So catch them in the cities and make sure they can’t return home.
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Shot with rubber bullets...
the author is hyperbolic, at best.
Their states are red and blue like ours. The bad shit is happening in the blue states and they elected the filthy politicians.
Plenty of weapons just slightly out of reach...
Where is Crocodile Dundee when you need him?
I posted this a couple of days ago; fits here also:
Aussies have let their guns be confiscated by their gov’t, and are at the total mercy of their gov’t mandates on any subject. Australia has gone too far down the socialist road to easily recover from this path and are unarmed to boot. We could go down the same path if our citizens don’t wise up fast. The results of the mid-term elections should show us what trajectory we are on.
Why do articles like this make me want to handle my guns?
second amendment is to make bureaucrats and elected officials play nicely. the fact that some people hunt with the tools it protects is incidental. the purpose of the second amendment has always been about providing the people bulwark against tyranny.
That makes them sound soft and squishy, like nerf balls.
They are very hard PLASTIC bullets, and they penetrate skin to the bone, leave scars, and will destroy an eyeball resulting in blindness.
But they gave up thier guns precisely so they could be shot by thier government
And THAT is what leftists are cheering.
As Australians didn’t up their guns, this article and anything based on it is nonsense.
Why do Americans believe these myths?
I’m sick of my country being lied about for propaganda purposes in America.
And I’m stunned that Americans seem so gullible and easily manipulated.
Australians are a bit thick. Rocks are free and plentify down under. They start shooting, the crowd starts pelting. Then move up to bricks. Soon their guns wont amount to anything much.
WWI showed you don’t need semi autos to kill millions.
Every time in history the government confiscates law abiding citizens arms the result is totalitarianism followed by a massive number of deaths one way or the other.
Screw that the enemy are the dying ones.
How is this untrue? Details appreciated. Thank you.
Everyone should look good and hard at the police actions against the population of Australia related to the lockdowns. Think it can’t happen in the USA? Think again. Consider this next time you use the slogan “Back the Blue”.
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