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When your founders crossed from the East to the West, they did it in teams and communities. They supported each other, and shared what they had.
Now one group doesn’t want to pay for another group. Such a divide. So sad. I paid about $60k in taxes last year, and I still pay extra for private health care on top of that. Never visited a doctor, and obviously don’t get any subsidies....but I have absolutely no issue doing so, as it helps those that do need a hand. I also know that if anything goes wrong, there is a massive safety net to catch me. I know American politics/healthcare isn’t the concern of anyone else in the world ... but our news and entertainment is so populated by what is happening in the States, that we can’t help but think we need to try and sway the closed mindset |
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I think we two disagree wildly in many topics, but we have managed to agree on many things too. I think we should agree on my idea for teenagers with too, and not start a war in this thread over this. And birth control is not a pill, that's access to pill while using condoms. Personally i have not had sex without both ever if not in a committed relationship.
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10-06-2017, 04:36 PM | #333 |
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That graph for Australia’s murder rate is in absolute numbers? If so a straight line would be a decrease given our population growth over the course of 21 years.
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That’s the point. See only the hard core gang members are using illegal guns to kill each other. It’s not people losing their shit temporarily and unleashing their stockpiled Arsenal’s on the public. It’s the nature and severity of the available weapons that are causing the carnage. Can’t you see that? I feel very sorry for all those people. I do. Despite my opinions on how crazy your gun laws are know that Australians in the end are behind the US and our hearts are with you guys. |
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10-06-2017, 04:45 PM | #335 | |
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Do you really expect a ban to magically reduce the figures dramatically in one or even 5 years? Really? Cmon people put some thought into it. I just think this could be it, it could be a watershed moment. Don’t let statistics pushed onto you from websites with an agenda dictate your thoughts. Use that freedom to come to your own conclusions. |
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In Finland, making big changes was easy. If you really hunt, you're in a club. If you're in a shooting club, they have records. You want to keep any sort of a firearm in your home and you'll storage space will be checked. I like stabbing. It gives the victim time to act more than a small movement of a finger does and even in the worst case scenario, it gives others time to run away.
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10-06-2017, 05:34 PM | #339 |
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Good point, I didn't look carefully enough at the graph; but you can see the line for the USA is also decreasing sharply even though guns are legal. My point was that Australia's gun ban was introduced in 1996, and in 1997 there was not a sharp decline in murders like many would predict.
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10-06-2017, 05:45 PM | #340 |
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How can you be sure about that? Before 1996, the gun laws in Australia and the USA were quite similar, so how do you explain the difference in murder rates in 1995? (AUS = ~1, USA = ~9) You said yourself that the rate would be higher if you had similar gun laws, so why wasn't it? Maybe it's because murder rates are more closely related to other social and economic factors than they are to gun laws.
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Please see my post #323. Guns were banned in Australia in 1996. What happened in 1997? No change
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10-06-2017, 05:50 PM | #342 | |
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Yeah, i think that was my point.
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Ah, my mistake. I skipped over two words of your post and read it as "I think it would happen in a day..."
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10-06-2017, 07:04 PM | #344 | |
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1. we don't have massive firearms manufacturers or associations with political vested interests and significant influence 2. while laws may have been 'similar' prior i think you'll find wholesale availability of military weapons has never been possible in any practical sense in Australia. They just weren't/aren't as pervasive in any of those countries as what it is in the US. That's why it's such a hot topic for you guys. 3. It's also definitely a cultural issue too. In the US guns ARE YOU'RE RIGHT!!! sort of thing, here they are frowned up at best. Personally I enjoy shooting but will gladly sacrifice that entertainment to make sure no-one 'busts a cap in my ass' for a parking spot. You're right though, there's bigger issues at hand than just guns. Again though, as Aussies we are with you. When the chips are down we have your back. |
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I mean, having a binary approach to data is the only way, based on this thread. |
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10-06-2017, 07:59 PM | #348 | |
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2. You're proving our point. 1. These aren't military weapons. 2. They aren't responsible for the murder rate. People are killed by pistols 98% of the time, not semiauto rifles. Same as in Austrailia. 3. Yes they are our right. But that's not the cultural issue thats the problem. The cultural issue is in the lack of respect for life and the law in blighted urban neighborhoods infested with drugs and felons who belong behind bars. It's the cultural problem of using music and movies to make these parasites look like heroes and the law like villans. |
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Guns dont kill people, people kill people. Knives dont stab people, people stab people. Cars dont run over people, people run over people. Etc doesnt etc people, people etc people. I say ban all the people!
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Yes, that's it.. ban, no wait kill all people then they can't kill each other
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Massacres are facilitated and made easier by rapid fire and high capacity weapons. It makes it easier to kill many more. I reckon it’s pretty clear, people get pissed off, sometimes bad. If there’s a gun on hand shits going to go down that otherwise might not when they’ve had time to calm down. How can you understand the cultural issues but not see the basic consequences and probabilities. Your own graph shows how out of balance your murder rate is of other western countries. The fundamental difference is plain to see, yet you’re looking at everything else except the one thing that’s bleedingly obvious. Give people ready access to weapons and they’ll use them. The more deadly they are, the more people will die. It’s just that simple. That’s why you have these deadly massacres and it sucks. Do other countries have troubles with terrorists, shit yeah but so do you guys. What you have in your country is unique in regards to firearms and the rate and frequency with which it occurs. When you take those high end weapons off the streets, you’ll get less of it. People will resort to other available weapons and if they’re less deadly then less will die. You can sugar coat and deny and present lots of stats but nothing will change until you want it to. And again my argument is important to me in trying to get through however I respect your right to disagree, and more importantly I am saddened and shocked by what happened and my heart genuinely goes out to those people who have lost their family members. I’d like to hear from people directly affected by this and hear their opinions, if and when it was appropriate. |
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