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Australia guns
I have an acquaintance who lives in California. She's *very* liberal in her views which is to be expected, I guess. She has recently announced that after living in the USA for the last 60+ years, she and her husband are moving to Australia next month to get away from the USA's "crazy" obsession with guns. Like other liberals, she has often advocated that the USA adopt the 1997 policy of a buy back program following the mass shooting in Port Arthur, Australia. She ignores some real data though. First, Australia does not have anything like a 2nd Amendment in it's constitution. Gun rights are controlled by the "states" rather than the federal government. Secondly, there are more privately owned firearms in Australia today than there were before 1996. The million guns destroyed after Port Arthur have been replaced with 1,026,000 new ones. But, I agree with her about one thing. The culture is different there. Guns are primarily used for hunting and there's no obsession with copies of military style semi-automatics. |
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