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2001400ex
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I was traveling all day so y'all didn't get the pleasure of my posts. But I read through most of it and you guys read just like my FB page. "There have been 18 school shootings this year" then "that's fake news" followed by "we need more guns in school and no gun free zones".
The reality is, if the NRA sticks to it's "zero gun control" philosophy, we will become Australia. There will be enough outcry from the public to make it happen. The NRA needs to step up with some reasonable measures to reduce the amount of deaths. Here's what happened in Australia and you'll read more about this as more shootings happen.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/02/15/australia-hasnt-had-fatal-mass-shooting-since-1996-heres-what-did/340345002/
The reality is, if the NRA sticks to it's "zero gun control" philosophy, we will become Australia. There will be enough outcry from the public to make it happen. The NRA needs to step up with some reasonable measures to reduce the amount of deaths. Here's what happened in Australia and you'll read more about this as more shootings happen.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/02/15/australia-hasnt-had-fatal-mass-shooting-since-1996-heres-what-did/340345002/
Comments
Someone with a voice of reason starts a thread on this issue.
So glad to hear you made it back safe after your travels.
Australia was a mandatory buy back aka confiscation of guns. They got results. Maybe that would work here but be honest about what you are after - taking people's guns.
Banning bump stocks isn't going to do anything. Kids take their parents legal guns and shoot up schools so take the guns.
Switzerland argues the other side of the issue. They encourage citizens to have guns and don't have anywhere near our problems.
Maybe the USA is the USA and our issues are more complex that its just one thing. There is a tipping point close by that might allow us to do something (shout out to Taggs). Let's do something intelligent for a change.
From the article
Wednesday's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida seems bound to evoke some sort of national conversation about gun control. Which means there will likely be some sort of debate about whether it would even be possible for the US to limit its millions of privately held guns — by far a higher per capita gun ownership rate than any other country.
It is worth considering, as one data point in the pool of evidence about what sorts of gun control policies do and do not work, the experience of Australia. Between October 1996 and September 1997, Australia responded to its own gun violence problem with a solution that was both straightforward and severe: It collected roughly 650,000 privately held guns. It was one of the largest mandatory gun buyback programs in recent history.
And it worked. That does not mean that something even remotely similar would work in the US — they are, needless to say, different countries — but it is worth at least looking at their experience.
And to be clear, they didn't ban all guns, or confiscate all guns. And gun ownership there now is higher than it was in 1996.
And also to be clear, I'm not saying, and have never said, to take away any guns in America.
Lots of folks are taking this VOX article and running with it. Be a leader not a wimp
Reality is. The NRA needs to use technology or something to implement better controls to reduce the number of shootings.
Check the polls after the last few shootings.
I fight crime. I shoot back.
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/13/557433452/poll-majorities-of-both-parties-favor-increased-gun-restrictions
The electoral college models everyone used were shit.
Some of you need to learn the difference.
Gotta amend though
The VAST majority of gun owners have a 'from my cold dead hands' mentality. Ain't nobody signed up out of ROTC to do a gun sweep in the wilds of N. Idaho or E. Oregon. Multiply Ruby Ridge/Weaver times about 1,000,000.