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January 17, 2013, 05:52 PM | #1 | |
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The difference between the USA and Australia
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/op...a-can-too.html
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I don't think, ya think, that he gets the broader implications of not having a bill of rights and how the legislature without such can go bonkers. Perhaps, the Australians are all good sort and never abuse each, so they don't need one. Interesting read. Very alien to our view point. The take-away point is his quote on rights.
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January 17, 2013, 05:59 PM | #2 |
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How far gone do you have to be to think that the Bill of Rights is a bad thing?
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January 17, 2013, 06:09 PM | #3 |
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There were supposedly around 650,000 guns turned in, from an Australian population of 23 million.
Their confiscation program might not have been as successful as imagined.
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January 17, 2013, 06:15 PM | #4 |
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Huh.
He does point out that Australia "was granted nationhood peacefully; the United States had to fight for it." He goes on to acknowledge that that might make a some sort of difference... Overall, it's an odd piece, given that he describes how the Australian gun ban worked, agrees that the situation in the U.S. is different (in part because we do have a Bill of Rights), but never says word one about how, exactly, the U.S. might do something similar... Lots of patting-self-on-back, zero relevance to U.S. situation. I guess he's sort of saying, "You go, Mr. Prez!" -- but there are no actual suggestions there. They have a parliamentary system, which works differently from ours -- has the possibility of coalition governments, votes of no confidence, etc. Not to mention that the head of Last edited by Evan Thomas; January 17, 2013 at 10:12 PM. Reason: fixed an oopsie. |
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That quote is disturbing.
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January 17, 2013, 06:42 PM | #6 |
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Screw Austrailia!
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http://www.gunsandcrime.org/auresult.html
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January 17, 2013, 09:25 PM | #8 |
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Did they also make note that the Uk and Australia both are surrounded by nothing but water, and that they also have secure borders. Here in the U.S we have Mexico immediately to our south and the world knows what the situation is there and to their south we have south america (columbia and panima) and we know the stuff that goes on there too. It is either impossible or too expensive to regulate our borders in the U.S, or there is something else going on because our gov. refuses to do anything about the stuff coming and going across the river. (Unless of course theyre the ones buying & selling down there then its OK).
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I find it amusing that every single article advocating for a ban on firearms state that GUN violence and GUN suicide drop, but never state if overall violence went up or if other crime rates changed.
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January 17, 2013, 10:11 PM | #11 |
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Eh, well... Italians.
Post WWII, they set up a system that favored small parties -- so was guaranteed to fragment, fall apart: by the '70's there were 17 political parties , and a constant squabble of coalition governments. So they "fixed" it sometime around 1993-94... by which time they had a "tradition" of very short-lived governments. And around 900 or so members of parliament for a population of about 60 million.... And they will go on electing Berlusconi.. Not a poster child, but not typical, either. |
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Vanya - I don't know what to make of Italy. A gazillion lira to the dollar...political chaos...and yet life goes on there. Seems like it should have collapsed long ago, maybe it has and nobody cared?
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I like this careful choice of words:
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He had to add that, to avoid the need to acknowledge the knife, sword, and axe rampages they've had since the ban. ...Or the fact that "sword violence" was so bad, they must now be licensed and registered.
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