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Unfortunately recent murders committed by African Americans and African Australians will cause a voter swing towards the right, not away from it.
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Not terrorism or extremism, rather a 'dispute'.
Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting was a result of a 'dispute', US authorities say
Authorities in the United States say a shooting at a Super Bowl victory rally was not linked to terrorism or violent extremism.www.sbs.com.au
well, if they had booze at 18 as well as the guns, that would likely be worseDunno, i'd say not being able to handle your s**t as an adult or even as a teenager and it is resulting in shooting random people including children is extremism.
it's extremely ******* stupid.
Which itself is the issue at its core. Stupid being people being allowed completely unrestricted access to weapons that can kill people with minimum effort or thought process.
it is legal to buy a certain types of guns in the USA when you are 18, but you can't drink until 21..... completely and utterly bonkers.
Geez some yanks are dumb.
The death count is largely irrelevant to the US giving a s**t. If 28 odd kids being killed at Sandy Hook, and 19 odd kids being killed in Uvalde doesn't move the needle. Nothing will.
Gun sales go UP after a mass shooting. Let that insanity sink in lol.
The best thing for business for a gun salesman in that utter shithole of a country, is a mass shooting.
Their only response is to produce MORE guns so they can further arm themselves. Place is just ******* bonkers man.
Yanks don't care how many innocent Children and adults die as long as they can keep their guns.Two arrested in Kansas City. Not too many details as yet, shooting reported
John howard made a tough call post port Arthur
Surely there are other parts of America where they could feel safe ?True. And to be honest, a lot of them who go out and buy them after these incidents aren't nutters, and may not even be pro-gun, ultimately.
But they're trapped.
Stuck in the situation they're in - a community full of guns - sooner or later... even the non-gun people end up arming themselves, because they know it's never going to change. And they figure well, if it hits me or my family, at least I have a chance of defending myself.
Their other option is to move to another country, which is an enormous, difficult and often prohibitively expensive exercise.
In the situation they're in, you can't blame many people for arming themselves. Their leaders have totally failed them and turned their communities into urban warzones. It's on the corrupt politicians. They're to blame.
Sadly your right.Lost cause - Gun Control will never happen
Sadly your right.
A majority of Americans would sooner their kids and grandkids got killed by gun violence than give up their guns.
Funny enough. Saw a post once where America led the way in gun deaths of children inside the family home, due to unsecured (unregulated) firearms. One guy with his family and kids in the picture, laughed at a comment asking why so called "sensible gun owners", were leaving their guns laying around. Replied with, "what idiot locks their gun for self defense up haha?" Bet he won't be laughing if one of his own kids blows their skull clean off by finding his "self defence" fire arm.Sadly your right.
A majority of Americans would sooner their kids and grandkids got killed by gun violence than give up their guns.
It's actually completely within the realms of possibility, It's just not many Australians wake up and think I'm going to go shoot a bunch of people.
Who knows, maybe if we had 400m people instead of 26m there would be more shootings
Unfortunately, in life at times you need to cater for the lowest common denominator, Australia did the right thing. America though, will never learn, guns are now so ingrained in their culture. This issue will NEVER be solved.
It is a matter of time until we are yet again pissed off because a bunch of kids are massacred in a school, and the US will again do nothing about it. it is the definition of insanity. All because a bunch of blokes 200 years ago said they had the right to carry around a ******* single shot musket lol, that took 5 minutes to reload.
I could think of little worse than being a parent of kids in the US.
The fact that all the things America is great at and does for the world. The fact they can't sort out an issue, that is at its core simple as s**t. Is a blight on their entire country.
Yanks don't care how many innocent Children and adults die as long as they can keep their guns.
I honestly believe a majority would still have that view even if their kids and grandkids were killed by gun violence, and remember the Trump is pro guns and so is the Republican party.
Best thing he did in office, and to be fair to him, would have taken a lot of courage to do.
It's mainly his own voter base he was pissing off with the changes, and he faced significant backlash from his own party (and coalition members).
Beyond the ingrained history of freedom fighting and pioneering, just the sheer numbers make it difficult.