Xpost: Austrailian gun control...

[jimmy the one]

17. your common misconception, #2

beevul: I think the confiscationists do not understand, that whether government payed for the firearms they confiscated or not, that they indeed compelled otherwise law abiding people to give up guns against their will.

You do realize we live in democracies, yes? or are you arguing that oz is adhering to some sort of tyranny of the majority? How does it work in beevul-land, that over 90% support means law abiding people gave up their guns against their will? a few yes, aka lunatic fringies.

Upwards of 95% of Australians polled after the Port Arthur massacre said they favored more stringent gun laws like these, and mass shootings have not occurred in the continent in the nearly two decades since. http://www.rt.com/usa/165384-obama-australia-gun-law/

pollsters reporting 90–95% public approval for stringent new gun laws.” ... that year, in what came to be known as the National Firearms Agreeme.. http://www.mnpact.org/sblog/blog.php?id=3635

beevul: Playing games calling it a buyback ignores the truth of the matter.

What is it when you ignore that about 95% of aussies supported the buyback scheme?

beevul: What say you all?

Try to extract your foot from your mouth.

The Prime Minister of Australia was John Howard...a member of Australia's conservative party and a staunch ally of President George W. Bush during the Iraq War. He was favored by gun advocates and the gun lobby in Australia (although not revered)....although that lobby did not have the same abilities as our country's NRA.
But after Port Arthur, the Prime Minister became the stongest possible advocate for sweeping gun control legislation.