Gun Control USA Vs Australia

[ozwood]

This is pretty Funny in sad sort of a way,



http://vimeo.com/64432171


Cheers,

[Tod Gilding]

that's a classic

Americans are happy when they have guns and that's a good thing because Americans have guns

[Nick]

Thanks for posting Paul, I enjoyed that
Can't quite understand the pro gun lobby's arguments sometimes, mind you, watching that I'm not sure they can either !
Love the drug law analogy.

[P Bill]

John Howard went to a dinner in his honour , hosted by Geo. Bush. He happily told a crowd of Texas Republicans one of his finest moments, indeed a bipartisan parliament's finest moment was buy back and gun control. That went over well.

[nnickusa]

I grew up in and around New York City. Spent 35 years there at a variety of ages. Spent 4 years in the USAF. Lived in a variety of areas all aroung the US. One thing I never figured out....

Americans and guns......There is a societal insanity regarding gun ownership and availability that results in pathological responses to the slightest suggestion that anyone might dare place any kind of limit on the same......

It is an apalling mentality that I simply cannot fathom......

Sadly, despite regular and sensless slaughter of innocents, America will likely never change.....

[Allen]

While driving back from NSW a few weeks ago I was listening to a story on the ABC radio.

The story was talking about the proposed gun safety laws being proposed after the Sandy Hook incident in December, their likelihood of success etc.

The part that stunned me is the following comment.

What hit's the news headlines all over the world each time something like this happens is that a bunch of people are shot in a short span of time. But that in the 100 days since the shootings 2000 people in the USA had died from gun shot wounds. Thats 20 per day people! Who knows how many were just wounded.

I just looked up at how many in a year, and it seems that it's 30,000 die each year in the USA from gunshot. More than many war zones.

A pretty staggering statistic. It must have become so common place that it doesn't worth a mention in the day to day media coverage.

[P Bill]

I have been reading Arizona open carry and concealed carry laws.....pretty much open slather with few restrictions and no permit.

Under prohibited weapons.......Nunchaku. Don't want any mass beatings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Arizona

[Kim]

If civil war breaks out over the issue my money is on the NRA to win.

[nutsdan]

the fact that I find astonishing is that since John Lennon was shot over 1 million Americans have died from gunfire and they still don't think that it is a problem

[Nick]

I often wonder if the likes of the NRA are arguing more because they see it as an infringement on their constitutional rights rather than seeing the lunacy of allowing unstable people to walk in off the street and buy semi automatics. It seems less to do with "guns kill people" and more "It's my right to carry a gun"

[nnickusa]

Nick, the arguement, if it is such, that I've heard over the years, is:

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people."

The crazy is that without easy access to guns, those crazies wouldn;t have the bloody guns.....they just don't get it.......

[ozwood]

Part two of three.


youtu.be/

Cheers,

[P Bill]

Keep 'em coming Paul. Nothing like ridicule to get at the truth. Strange times when two comedy shows, The Daily Show and
The Colbert Report, are at or near the top of the news credibility heap in the US for many folks.

[peter.coombe]

Yes well as usual both sides distort the facts, and I've heard all the BS arguments from both sides many times before. The way I see it is that in Australia self protection is not a valid legal reason for an ordinary person to own a firearm. The only valid reasons are either for target shooting as a member of a club, recreational hunting, or vermin control on a farm. Military style assault rifles are useless for these purposes and have always been illegal. This is as it should be. In the USA it is not only legal, but it is the main reason why so many people do own firearms. That is a basic fundamental difference that never seems to be mentioned by the media. Once self protection is legal, then people will want to buy firearms that are designed to kill people, and will strongly defend their right to do so no matter what. Gun control in the USA is thus always destined to fail unless this changes. What are chances of it ever changing. Pretty low.

[P Bill]

Third installment of the series?

[ozwood]

Third and Final.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVuspKSj ... B1&index=4

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVuspKSjfgA

youtu.be/

Cheers,

[Kim]

Nearly there Paul just delete that pesky & and you've got it.

Thanks for linking these vids BTW, there a hoot

Cheers

Kim

[ozwood]

Thanks Kim

[needsmorecowbel]

I just saw this and it is pretty scary stuff to think that soon you could print your own gun in a 3D printer at home if you had a spare 10,000. Turns out the technology is not too far off according to this article.

16 parts only the bullet and the firing pin are metal...Creepy

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenbe ... inted-gun/

[needsmorecowbel]

Scarier yet the guy who designed it plans to sell the plans online...sigh