Barth
12-24-2012, 03:46 PM
GATE Self-Defense Forum:
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Israel vs Australia
Mas,
One more from me and I am done for a while:
I read a recent anti-gun article citing Australia's school shooting and a rather draconian anti-gun legal reaction that confiscated a lot of firearms.
They point to their success story in that this either happened in 1998 or 2002 and there has not been a single school shooting since.
I tried to do my due dilligence but I cannot find ANY other school shootings in Australia since time began (at least according to Wikkipedia and Google)
Do you have any additional data on Australia?
Seems like a severe reaction to a single, isolated event.
Before I go off and say so to anyone else wanted to check with someone most likely in the know.
I looked at your backwoods home article that cited a counterpoint view for Israel and one other country that I cannot remember.
Thanks!
~Answer~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Australia has experienced at least two mass murders since their gun ban.
One by arson, showing that it's about murderers more than it's about guns,
and one by gunfire showing that gun bans don't achieve all that their proponents hope for.
best,
Mas
~Question~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Israel vs Australia
Mas,
One more from me and I am done for a while:
I read a recent anti-gun article citing Australia's school shooting and a rather draconian anti-gun legal reaction that confiscated a lot of firearms.
They point to their success story in that this either happened in 1998 or 2002 and there has not been a single school shooting since.
I tried to do my due dilligence but I cannot find ANY other school shootings in Australia since time began (at least according to Wikkipedia and Google)
Do you have any additional data on Australia?
Seems like a severe reaction to a single, isolated event.
Before I go off and say so to anyone else wanted to check with someone most likely in the know.
I looked at your backwoods home article that cited a counterpoint view for Israel and one other country that I cannot remember.
Thanks!
~Answer~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Australia has experienced at least two mass murders since their gun ban.
One by arson, showing that it's about murderers more than it's about guns,
and one by gunfire showing that gun bans don't achieve all that their proponents hope for.
best,
Mas