Re: Arm the gnus

David Luyer (luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au)
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:10:19 +0800


Please, kill this thread. I hadn't realised quite how insane Americans
are until this guns thread came up. I didn't want to respond to it but
the idiocy has dragged me into it - the belief of Americans that their
constitution is the law of the world (a country with laws which bans export
of encryption and yet do nothing to stop the masses from owning firearms).

1: This doesn't belong here. Take it to wherever guns-lobby loonies collect
and chat about how they should be allowed to bear arms (or in countries
with primitive laws, defend their right to bear arms).

2: There is no "natural right to bear arms". Any right to weapons is a thing
of the past, and the countries where it is legal for anyone to own a gun
are stuck in the distant past. In Australia, Pauline Hanson's One Nation
Party was the latest guns-lobby-sponsored political party. Their pro-guns
and pro-racism policies put them right where they deserved to be - out of
parliament.

The Australian society has grown up and realised that a society without guns
is a far safer society. It takes a cursory glance at the statistics of violent
crimes and deaths to realise that gun ownership is not a sensible thing for
the masses. If you need to own a gun to feel safe, move!

David.

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