Voice Of Reason Wrote:
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> trogdor! Wrote:
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> > They have no crime in Australia:
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/police-8
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> 216shoot-man-dead8217-at-coolum-home-where-two-peo
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> ple-were-found-dead/story-fnii5v70-1226701687850
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> > Oops. That wasn't supposed to happen.
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> Though I personally don't think a repeal of the
> Second Amendment is good idea, I just want to
> point out how your argument is flawed. How many
> years has it been since their last spree shooting,
> and how months since our last one? We almost had
> one the other day.
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Not as infrequent as you might think:
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/gay-sex-club-shooter-prayed-in-arabic-before-opening-fire/
http://www.bnowire.com/inbox/?id=1875
etc., etc.
Some journalist a few years back did an article where they went to different countries with relatively strict gun laws to see how hard it actually was to get a gun there. In all cases they were able to easily find guns, in most cases within couple of hours, and that was just dropping in cold not knowing anyone. If I remember right it took about 45 minutes in Australia.
They have a population that's less than 1/10th of ours so every event there is equal to about 10 here. Their rate is lower in any case. But what never gets said in these discussions which tend to attribute that to their ban is that it was lower prior to the ban anyway, the shooting which triggered it being a very rare event to begin with. They have much less of a problem with urban minority gangs et. al as here. The population is about 92% white, 7% Asian, and about 1% other, a large percentage of which are aboriginals who don't really play that same game.