LA Times Admits Australian-Style Gun Control Would Do Nothing

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  1. Maccabee

    Maccabee Well-Known Member

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    Why try something that already failed? This is the same argument socialists and communists use. The only reason why it failed in every other country that tried is because they didn't perfected it. So let's try it here. The definition of insanity.
     
  2. dave8383

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    Don't you like to try new things?
     
  3. Maccabee

    Maccabee Well-Known Member

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    I like to try things that at least hasn't failed before when others tried it. By your logic, let's try putting your head on a rail as a frieght train is going by and see if the wieght of the train will crush it. Others tried and fail but that doesn't mean you'll fail.
     
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    lol

    Good idea.

    Anything else?
     
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    So the title of this thread is a misrepresentation of what the article said. Mass shootings were greatly reduced. That was the point of the law. If it didn't reduce other types of shootings that is besides the point.
     
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    How did a law that banned nothing other than cosmetics "greatly reduce" mass shootings? No AR was confiscated. New ARs simply bypassed the silly restrictions. The number of semiautomatic, magazine fed rifles increased every single year of the AWB.
     
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    Indeed.

    AWB.jpg
     
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    Good post.

    But gun banners don't care about facts. Everything suggests that the resident paid gun banners in the forum don't even read short posts, they just spout personal attacks and stupidity.
     
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    It's all they have, as the truth is against them.
     
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    Mass shootings were already decreasing long before the firearm-related restrictions were implemented into law in the nation of Australia.

    Beyond that matter, the united states attempting to implement the same firearm-related restrictions as the nation of Australia, would not yield similar results in the united states.
     
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    Let me guess... someone presented a post hoc fallacy.
     
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    I'm talking about Australia's ban on all semi-auto rifles. Such a law would not be easy to bypass in the US.
     
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    Such restrictions would be exceedingly easy to bypass in the united states.
     
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    And, absent a repeal of the 2nd, never pass constitutional muster.
     
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    A federal buy back ?

    How many trillions of dollars are we talking about ?

    Who's going to pay for it ? The 55% who actually pay individual income taxes ?

    I'll just pick one year, 2013 and there were over 10 million rifles sold in America thay year and most of those rifles were black scary looking rifles that sold from $700 to over $1,000 each.

    There are over 300 million guns owned by law abiding citizens in America.
     
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    Why should only liberal loons be given a machine gun ?
     
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    We can build a nice wall with what a true buy back would cost.
     
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    You'd think so, but various states are trying. The most commonly used firearm type in mass shootings is the semiautomatic handgun. Australia still allows those. New Zealand allows ownership of semi-auto rifles, yet they don't have any mass shootings at all.
     
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    Liberal loons? That's not very nice.
     
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    Well I'm not a politically correct guy.

    When I see a spade, I call it a spade.

    When I see a black scary rifle, I call it a rifle.
     
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    Yet whenever I’ve insulted a conservative they run to the moderator like a little school girl to tattle on me.
     
  22. dave8383

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    That's the MO in here.
     
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    I like the idea even more.

    BTW, why does the color black scare you so much?
     
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    Pass the laws and let scotus decide
     
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    Such is not how the law in the united states works.
     

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