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The truth about Australia's gun control experiment - On Line Opinion - 16/6/2014
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Australians pride themselves on 'telling it like it is', but when it comes to gun laws, straight-shooting often takes a back seat to a determined effort at silencing debate.
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In 1996, Australia passed some of the most restrictive gun laws in the western world. They included bans on self-loading rifles and self-loading and pump-action shotguns, universal gun registration and a taxpayer funded gun confiscation program costing over half a billion dollars. The ongoing costs of running the firearms registration systems are unknown but have been estimated at around $28 million per year, or $75,000 per day. That's more than what the average Australian earns in a year.
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For that price tag, any accountable democracy should expect to have a decent debate about its efficacy. But in Australia, debate about guns has been all but silenced. Anti-gun zealots, within and outside the halls of parliament, smugly try to convince the rest of the world that Australia's model of firearms management has been a resounding success. 'We saved lives!" they claim. "We stopped mass shootings!" they say.
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It is just like the fight going on in the USA, citizens are only provided half truths and outright lies by politicians with backup from the LameStreamMedia. This is the reason Bummer is promoting the contrived successes of the Australians as an outline for gun control in America. Australian's have done all the hard work of promoting and politicking the concept and allegedly has all the proof to back up the scheme. I use the word scheme for that is all this is a scheme to get Americans to accept junk science and faulty statistics as gospel (dare I use that word regarding anything Bummer wants) After all, why not use what has already worked in another part of the world saves time and money and later they can lay the blame on the Australians when it is proven that it doesn't work. We were just following their lead, it isn't our fault they lied to their citizens and us.
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Australians pride themselves on 'telling it like it is', but when it comes to gun laws, straight-shooting often takes a back seat to a determined effort at silencing debate.
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In 1996, Australia passed some of the most restrictive gun laws in the western world. They included bans on self-loading rifles and self-loading and pump-action shotguns, universal gun registration and a taxpayer funded gun confiscation program costing over half a billion dollars. The ongoing costs of running the firearms registration systems are unknown but have been estimated at around $28 million per year, or $75,000 per day. That's more than what the average Australian earns in a year.
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For that price tag, any accountable democracy should expect to have a decent debate about its efficacy. But in Australia, debate about guns has been all but silenced. Anti-gun zealots, within and outside the halls of parliament, smugly try to convince the rest of the world that Australia's model of firearms management has been a resounding success. 'We saved lives!" they claim. "We stopped mass shootings!" they say.
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It is just like the fight going on in the USA, citizens are only provided half truths and outright lies by politicians with backup from the LameStreamMedia. This is the reason Bummer is promoting the contrived successes of the Australians as an outline for gun control in America. Australian's have done all the hard work of promoting and politicking the concept and allegedly has all the proof to back up the scheme. I use the word scheme for that is all this is a scheme to get Americans to accept junk science and faulty statistics as gospel (dare I use that word regarding anything Bummer wants) After all, why not use what has already worked in another part of the world saves time and money and later they can lay the blame on the Australians when it is proven that it doesn't work. We were just following their lead, it isn't our fault they lied to their citizens and us.
