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He had a knife, not a gun. It makes a difference. A woman died and another is in hospital. (And don't think that the gender is irrelevant, either. It almost definitely is.)
If the kind of weapon doesn't matter because a crime is still committed, then Americans must be piss-ass weaklings, because we Aussies disarm our armed nutjobs with a crate and a couple of cafe chairs, while Americans lie down and bleed out so their President can have grinning photo ops with the survivors.
#makeaustraliacrateagain
Is it inappropriate to joke about this? Absofuckinglutely not. Not if it saves lives in the future.
But you're not interested in lives, are you? You're only interested in your dick replacement 'therapy' and your inferiority complex that means you're only big so long as you 'have the abilty to fight back' like that somehow makes you better, instead of just more fortunate.
You can keep your guns, America. We'll keep our people alive.
Now, to stomp Pauline Hanson's One Nation and their NRA-sponsored shitstirring into the dust beneath the feet of the tourists no longer climbing Uluru...
Yes, I know, #notallamericans and I'm preaching to the choir here. But I've said this on IG and others have said it on FB, and sometimes you just need to go off.
If the kind of weapon doesn't matter because a crime is still committed, then Americans must be piss-ass weaklings, because we Aussies disarm our armed nutjobs with a crate and a couple of cafe chairs, while Americans lie down and bleed out so their President can have grinning photo ops with the survivors.
#makeaustraliacrateagain
Is it inappropriate to joke about this? Absofuckinglutely not. Not if it saves lives in the future.
But you're not interested in lives, are you? You're only interested in your dick replacement 'therapy' and your inferiority complex that means you're only big so long as you 'have the abilty to fight back' like that somehow makes you better, instead of just more fortunate.
You can keep your guns, America. We'll keep our people alive.
Now, to stomp Pauline Hanson's One Nation and their NRA-sponsored shitstirring into the dust beneath the feet of the tourists no longer climbing Uluru...
Yes, I know, #notallamericans and I'm preaching to the choir here. But I've said this on IG and others have said it on FB, and sometimes you just need to go off.
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So, we had a knife-wielder at our local shopping centre this afternoon. Exciting times, particularly since he got shot by the cops, and three other bystanders got hit by ricochets and are in conditions ranging from serious to critical.
I was planning to go in to do some shopping just after lunch; as it turns out, I delayed and then this news broke. So, no shopping until later tonight (maybe).
I have a kitchen full of knives, which I use in the way that knives should be used. ie. Not on my fellow humans. Which, yay for me. However, there are people in this world who would use knives in ways that are socially deemed inappropriate - to threaten others and to injure them. They aren't many, but when they do manage to get out on a knife rampage, they can cause a great deal of damage...so long as they're close up and have a lot of people around them who can't move.
A gun, on the other hand, can do a great deal more damage from a long way away, while cutting off people's avenues to escape.
Tonight, my friend Jill and her daughters are sitting at home, alive and well. Tonight, a dozen mothers and their babies are going to greet their partners and say "there was a crazy guy wielding a knife at Westfield today, but the cops took him out" instead of "honey, our baby died in a fusillade of bullets". Tonight, there's only four people in the local hospital because of this situation, and three of them were an accident rather than a target.
Sure, a gun can be used safely and properly, for the appropriate circumstances, in one's right mind - as the cops showed today. And yes, accidents will still happen - as the cops showed today also.
But the magnitude of the bloodshed is significantly less. The potential for death and destruction is reduced. And it doesn't even require them to take away your own personal guns - just to enact controls on who sells guns, who buys them, and the type of weapons that can be used in civilian circumstances.
Ted Cruz claimed Australians have no freedom because we have gun control laws. Frankly, Cruz, I'll take my friends lives and the lives of all those people who survived today over the kind of 'freedom' you're offering.
I was planning to go in to do some shopping just after lunch; as it turns out, I delayed and then this news broke. So, no shopping until later tonight (maybe).
I have a kitchen full of knives, which I use in the way that knives should be used. ie. Not on my fellow humans. Which, yay for me. However, there are people in this world who would use knives in ways that are socially deemed inappropriate - to threaten others and to injure them. They aren't many, but when they do manage to get out on a knife rampage, they can cause a great deal of damage...so long as they're close up and have a lot of people around them who can't move.
A gun, on the other hand, can do a great deal more damage from a long way away, while cutting off people's avenues to escape.
Tonight, my friend Jill and her daughters are sitting at home, alive and well. Tonight, a dozen mothers and their babies are going to greet their partners and say "there was a crazy guy wielding a knife at Westfield today, but the cops took him out" instead of "honey, our baby died in a fusillade of bullets". Tonight, there's only four people in the local hospital because of this situation, and three of them were an accident rather than a target.
Sure, a gun can be used safely and properly, for the appropriate circumstances, in one's right mind - as the cops showed today. And yes, accidents will still happen - as the cops showed today also.
But the magnitude of the bloodshed is significantly less. The potential for death and destruction is reduced. And it doesn't even require them to take away your own personal guns - just to enact controls on who sells guns, who buys them, and the type of weapons that can be used in civilian circumstances.
Ted Cruz claimed Australians have no freedom because we have gun control laws. Frankly, Cruz, I'll take my friends lives and the lives of all those people who survived today over the kind of 'freedom' you're offering.
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