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RE: Siege 3 houses down the road - What a Sunday
I glad no one was injured during this. Reading through the comments, I saw multiple mentions similar to "It's good that the gun laws are strict so he didn't have a gun."
I'm torn on this one, being from the US where many value their guns more than their children. The common argument here is that if we had stricter gun laws, only criminals would have guns.
The other argument is that we NEED guns to protect us from other wackos like the 2 mentioned in this post.
What are your thoughts on strict gun laws in Australia, and what do your laws look like there? What do you think about the US's current stance on pretty much anyone being able to have pretty much any guns they want?
How often do you here about shootings/mass shootings in Australia, not that often at all. Criminals will always get guns no matter what but having laws in place allows stopping just anyone from easily getting it, having more accidental or purposely shootings, and not having the gun laws could've meant he easily had a gun instead and went around, shooting neighbours.
I have a 6 foot long Shaolin staff, so if this guy was trying to get into my house I would have the distance from the knife and can jam it into his throat. No gun needed.
I'm 100% picturing you with a Shaolin staff going all comic book style on some guy skulking around with a knife. It's pretty epic.
I really don't hear about mass shootings from anywhere other than the States, but I also believe that our culture has more to do with that than our gun laws. We are a fractured society with little regard for others in many ways. My viewpoint comes from within this place though, and I know our media tends to only show us things that promote whichever point of view they are pushing that week. It makes it hard to know how things are in other parts of the world.
For example, when a police officer kills a black male, it's splashed all over the news. People riot. When a police officer kills a while male (which happens much more frequently), it may make the back page of a print newspaper. So what I hear about is largely a filtered version of reality.
I wish I knew of a good solution to our gun problem. At this point, I don't think that simply taking guns away would do any good. Most people would just hide their guns. Any ideas?
Not really sure if much can help now. Everywhere in the world, people are becoming worse and worse as is society as a whole. We are in a continuous decline as humans and not enough people change or work on making change to see enough good overcome the bad.
I mostly agree with you. We may have passed the point of no return, particularly in the States regarding guns. That's a scary thought though - that it will just continue and/or get worse... People often talk about a collective consciousness shift. I think we'd have to have something like that happen in order to drastically reduce the number of shootings here.