Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Xpost: Austrailian gun control... [View all]SwissTony
(2,560 posts)But i didn't hear one Australian (except for a few gun "nuts" who didn't approve of the measures. John Howard was a Liberal prime minister. Our Liberals are our right wing party. Rob Borbidge was the Premier of Queensland. He was a member of the National Party. The National party is to the right of the liberals, often by some way. he and his party supported Howard's measures.
Even the gun nuts saw the sense of Howard's measures.
Watch JO's videos.
Yeah, Howard spent millions on the gun retrieval. You know why? Because we wanted it. Australians turned in thousands of weapons because we were sickened with what happened at Port Arthur.
Number of Australians who thought this was not money well spent? To the best of my knowledge, a non-negative integer less than 1.
Did some guns get onto the illegal market? Very probably. How many? No evidence that it was a lot. If you disagree, please provide.
Were police procedures followed as they should have been? I don't know. Are police procedures followed exactly as protocol dictates in Chicago...New York...London...Tokyo...? I guess not always, unfortunately. Yep, things could have and may have gone wrong.
Argue all you like, mate but we've only had one mass shooting since 1996.
And your comment about me somehow devaluing mass killings because guns weren't involved is simply disgusting.