The Liberal Gun Club Forum

Although we foreigners can offer no immediate solution to America’s gun infestation, we can see how you lost control of the plague of armed violence. Outsiders are also perplexed to see that you’ve done so little to grant your citizens a basic human right — the freedom to live without fear of death by gunshot.

Historically, there’s little mystery as to how it began. The early laws of each European empire relied on two pillars of gun safety: Firearm owners were obliged to apply for a license and then to register each firearm, just as we do with cars. Because these restrictions were copied to hundreds of colonies, almost all nations now rely on universal licensing and registration to regulate firearms. Except America.

Even as America rejected British rule and charted its own brave course, your Founding Fathers and settlers often did more to control firearms than you do today. In Dodge City, Kan.; Tombstone, Ariz.; New York; and Chicago — to name just a few — stringent gun controls were commonly imposed. But since then, interest groups have bullied politicians into allowing unlicensed, unquantified gun ownership. The United States is now alone with its Second Amendment and almost alone in regulating assault weapons and handguns with such laxity.

beaurrr wrote:Is it time for Tequila yet?

DispositionMatrix wrote:

beaurrr wrote:Is it time for Tequila yet?

2hours, 20 minutes.

beaurrr wrote:

DispositionMatrix wrote:

beaurrr wrote:Is it time for Tequila yet?

2hours, 20 minutes.

Things are looking up; I though it was more like 4 hours.

Merkwuerdigliebe wrote:Heh. So says the former penal colony.

Though it is a bit surprising to see how restrictive Aussie gun laws are since their Governments have consistently been fairly conservative. They still don't have gay marriages for example.

sikacz wrote:

Merkwuerdigliebe wrote:Heh. So says the former penal colony.

Though it is a bit surprising to see how restrictive Aussie gun laws are since their Governments have consistently been fairly conservative. They still don't have gay marriages for example.

Being conservative is the reason for strict gun control in my view. It's to keep all things the same with a splash of authoritarian.

I'll drink some wine tonight with y'all and finish off with the last of my whiskey!

DispositionMatrix wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in- ... t-control/

Although we foreigners can offer no immediate solution to America’s gun infestation, we can see how you lost control of the plague of armed violence. Outsiders are also perplexed to see that you’ve done so little to grant your citizens a basic human right — the freedom to live without fear of death by gunshot.

Historically, there’s little mystery as to how it began. The early laws of each European empire relied on two pillars of gun safety: Firearm owners were obliged to apply for a license and then to register each firearm, just as we do with cars. Because these restrictions were copied to hundreds of colonies, almost all nations now rely on universal licensing and registration to regulate firearms. Except America.

Even as America rejected British rule and charted its own brave course, your Founding Fathers and settlers often did more to control firearms than you do today. In Dodge City, Kan.; Tombstone, Ariz.; New York; and Chicago — to name just a few — stringent gun controls were commonly imposed. But since then, interest groups have bullied politicians into allowing unlicensed, unquantified gun ownership. The United States is now alone with its Second Amendment and almost alone in regulating assault weapons and handguns with such laxity.

SailDesign wrote:

DispositionMatrix wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in- ... t-control/

Although we foreigners can offer no immediate solution to America’s gun infestation, we can see how you lost control of the plague of armed violence. Outsiders are also perplexed to see that you’ve done so little to grant your citizens a basic human right — the freedom to live without fear of death by gunshot.

Historically, there’s little mystery as to how it began. The early laws of each European empire relied on two pillars of gun safety: Firearm owners were obliged to apply for a license and then to register each firearm, just as we do with cars. Because these restrictions were copied to hundreds of colonies, almost all nations now rely on universal licensing and registration to regulate firearms. Except America.

Even as America rejected British rule and charted its own brave course, your Founding Fathers and settlers often did more to control firearms than you do today. In Dodge City, Kan.; Tombstone, Ariz.; New York; and Chicago — to name just a few — stringent gun controls were commonly imposed. But since then, interest groups have bullied politicians into allowing unlicensed, unquantified gun ownership. The United States is now alone with its Second Amendment and almost alone in regulating assault weapons and handguns with such laxity.

I have to admit I kind of agree with him.

But that surprises no-one, I'm sure.

Australia increasingly comes across as a place where foreigners, especially tourists and backpackers, can be bashed or killed and women can be dragged into cars by random strangers and physically or sexually assaulted

Some scholars even credit the 1996 gun law with causing the decrease in deaths from firearms, though they are still debating that point. A 2003 study from AIC, which looked at rates between 1991 and 2001, found that some of the decline in firearm-related homicides (and suicides as well) began before the reform was enacted. On the other hand, a 2006 analysis by scholars at the University of Sydney concluded that gun fatalities decreased more quickly after the reform. Yet another analysis, from 2008, from the University of Melbourne, concluded that the buyback had no significant effect on firearm suicide or homicide rates.

beaurrr wrote: Jesus christ, will the endless stream of self-righteous foreign 'observers' telling us how fucked up our gun laws never end?

beaurrr wrote: Do these people not realize how very little Americans think of their opinions about us, guns or otherwise?

beaurrr wrote: Is it time for Tequila yet?

DispositionMatrix wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in- ... t-control/

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Historically, there’s little mystery as to how it began. The early laws of each European empire relied on two pillars of gun safety: Firearm owners were obliged to apply for a license and then to register each firearm, just as we do with cars.