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Originally Posted by G
Firstly, my thoughts and prayers are with the families, friends and all of you who're hurting from this. I've read a lot of these posts, and I think it's sad for the US that the debate always goes to the extremes immediately.
I'll just say this (and yup, I know exactly what's coming my way - see above re: the extremes): societies that cannot handle the responsibility of firearms shouldn't have them freely available. Think about it. YOU can handle it, THEY can't - what are you prepared to live with so that YOU can have any gun you want any way you want? That goes for the place I live too - too many mass shootings before strict gun-laws were brought in. Today in Aus, you CAN own a gun, you just can't carry it around with you in the street. You CAN shoot at the range, you CAN hunt, that's it.
Nothing wrong with licensing and b/round checks and not being able to purchase f/arms and ammunition over the web IMO. You guys will all survive, trust me. At least give a gun-store worker the opportunity to see a face, hear a voice and make a call about whether to report someone to the authorities because he comes across as a whack-job.
Finally, to all of those "wish there were armed people at xx mass shooting" people: three separate shootings in Melbourne over the years where unarmed people stopped a shooter who intended mass murder:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University_shooting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Trob...rsity_shooting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_James_Knight |
So because the few and I mean very few people who have ever committed mass murder with a firearm or even murdered anyone with a firearm in this country chose to break the law, we should take away the rights of the overwhelming majority of people who have not and would not commit such acts?
If I own a gun what does it matter how I purchase ammunition? Should the government track and control how much ammunition I am allowed to purchase?
While you can purchase a firearm over the internet it still has to go to a local gun store before you can take it home. They don't just ship it to your house.
The only advantage of this is you can find better deals online than whats always in your LGS.
So whats the big deal?
No offense but who are you to tell me I should have to walk around unarmed and hope that I can manage to take down an armed assailant unarmed.
If you and your country were willing to lay down your protection and your rights good luck to you. But don't ask or expect me to do the same.