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Gun Control & RKBA

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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 03:04 PM Apr 2016

Strange Politics: Gun lobby’s zealot fringe mobilises online [View all]

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JUST mention gun control and every Yosemite Sam and his dog comes out with keyboards blazing, champing at the bit to teach some namby-pamby wuss a lesson in statistics.

The New South Wales Greens this week released data obtained through a freedom of information request revealing the number of legally registered firearms in each of the state's postcodes.

Someone in the latte-sipping heartland (a term critics later directed my way) of inner Sydney around La Perouse had a private cache of 302 guns; another in Mosman had 278.

Hardly a couple of knockabout cockies keeping the foxes at bay, but still two completely law-abiding citizens who happen to enjoy firearms, as far as anyone knows.

http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/news/strange-politics-gun-lobbys-zealot-fringe/2997902/
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