Funny that. American civilians have more guns per capita than anyone on the planet. Collectively, they own almost ten times as many guns as the entire U.S. military.
And yet, somehow, not a single shot has been fired in the battle against oppressive or illegal lockdowns anywhere in the U.S.
I'll just chip in here because I see a lot of pedes here use the AU scenario for promoting guns.
The argument for gun ownership for fighting against tyranny is a valid argument but it is very narrow and specific case. Even if we do have guns now with COVID19 restrictions, are we supposed to start gun fights with the police? The restrictions are legal under the law, after all. The argument for gun ownership to fight against tyranny will only be useful only when all hell has broken loose.
Most aussies (even conservatives) reap the benefit of not having guns (less crazies with guns) but it comes as a trade off. The best argument for guns was proven in the recent US riots where police can be powerless or told to stand down by leftie state governments. The best argument for guns, in my opinion, is the right of a person to defend themselves and their property.
The argument to "fight against tyranny" does not seem as convincing to most people, just saying.
In terms of restrictions, why is AU different from America?
The populace of AU is really very docile and chill.
People are more willing to give their local governments a chanc, and not standup for their rights.
The upside is that when we had massive BLM protests here, no riots took place. Again, Aussies seems docile compared to Americans, in general.
The other problem we have here in AU is that we don't have a Bill of Rights enshrined in our constitution. Something Americans have.
So the restrictions imposed on us are legal and is harder to challenge. There are some groups challenging them of course, but it is taking some time.
This is a prime example of why you never ever give up your right to owning guns.
Funny that. American civilians have more guns per capita than anyone on the planet. Collectively, they own almost ten times as many guns as the entire U.S. military.
And yet, somehow, not a single shot has been fired in the battle against oppressive or illegal lockdowns anywhere in the U.S.
So true. However, there have been mass shootings - jogger on jogger - but those would have happened regardless of lockdowns.
Crazy idea but maybe we don't have a gun problem?
I think we need a public leader to organize these things. Individually we aren't very likely to do anything.
Problem is that every potential leader looks like “hello, fellow non-feds. Would you like to build illegal guns and stage an insurrection?”
So basically we’re stuck until we (a) stop giving a fuck, or (b) Trump directly tells us to do something
I'll just chip in here because I see a lot of pedes here use the AU scenario for promoting guns.
The argument for gun ownership for fighting against tyranny is a valid argument but it is very narrow and specific case. Even if we do have guns now with COVID19 restrictions, are we supposed to start gun fights with the police? The restrictions are legal under the law, after all. The argument for gun ownership to fight against tyranny will only be useful only when all hell has broken loose.
Most aussies (even conservatives) reap the benefit of not having guns (less crazies with guns) but it comes as a trade off. The best argument for guns was proven in the recent US riots where police can be powerless or told to stand down by leftie state governments. The best argument for guns, in my opinion, is the right of a person to defend themselves and their property. The argument to "fight against tyranny" does not seem as convincing to most people, just saying.
In terms of restrictions, why is AU different from America?
The populace of AU is really very docile and chill. People are more willing to give their local governments a chanc, and not standup for their rights. The upside is that when we had massive BLM protests here, no riots took place. Again, Aussies seems docile compared to Americans, in general.
The other problem we have here in AU is that we don't have a Bill of Rights enshrined in our constitution. Something Americans have. So the restrictions imposed on us are legal and is harder to challenge. There are some groups challenging them of course, but it is taking some time.
What are you talking about. There is a lot of gun ownership in Australia.
Do they have more guns than people?
Yeah more than 50% of my office has guns. You need a licence which is the bad part.