Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Xpost: Austrailian gun control... [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)used an undemocratic means, blackmailing the states to adopt the NFA, spent millions of your dollars to confiscate registered guns from licensed gun owners only to find some of them sold on the black market by cops with no tangible benefit at all, I have to question people's judgement. BTW, why did it take six hours for police to respond to the Port Authur shooter? Did they determine where he got the guns, since he didn't have a license and one of them was stolen from a police evidence room? Were police officials in Tasmania held accountable for gross incompetence and dereliction of duty? If not, why not?
Tell me, was there a real debate, or did the government and government owned media, like ABC, simply fill the airwaves with bullshit while the gun owners, or the SSAA for that mater, were shut out? Did the very people who would be the only ones affected have any voice in this debate? If not, what does that say about Australian democracy?
So you are saying mass murder is no big deal unless the killer uses a gun? That's one of the reasons why I don't like culture warriors be they anti gun or anti abortion religious fundamentalists.