Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Arm the gnus | Date | Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:10:19 +0800 | From | David Luyer <> |
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Please, kill this thread. I hadn't realised quite how insane Americans are until this guns thread came up. I didn't want to respond to it but the idiocy has dragged me into it - the belief of Americans that their constitution is the law of the world (a country with laws which bans export of encryption and yet do nothing to stop the masses from owning firearms).
1: This doesn't belong here. Take it to wherever guns-lobby loonies collect and chat about how they should be allowed to bear arms (or in countries with primitive laws, defend their right to bear arms).
2: There is no "natural right to bear arms". Any right to weapons is a thing of the past, and the countries where it is legal for anyone to own a gun are stuck in the distant past. In Australia, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party was the latest guns-lobby-sponsored political party. Their pro-guns and pro-racism policies put them right where they deserved to be - out of parliament.
The Australian society has grown up and realised that a society without guns is a far safer society. It takes a cursory glance at the statistics of violent crimes and deaths to realise that gun ownership is not a sensible thing for the masses. If you need to own a gun to feel safe, move!
David.
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