...In A Country With Strict Gun Control.
Here's an interesting article. It covers a few things I didn't know about. For example:
Don't take my word for it - this article published in Time shows what Australia's gun laws are like from the perspective of an actual gun enthusiast.
The conclusion is very interesting:
I encourage you to read the complete article.
There are guns in Australia. People who have a reason to have one can have one, as long as they fall within certain parameters. But the average person on the street is not going to be carrying one, and I have no expectation that anyone I randomly meet is going to be carrying one. And that's how I like it.
Here's an interesting article. It covers a few things I didn't know about. For example:
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Another part of the law that changed is that the police can come to your house and inspect your storage. When we renovated our house, I built a room dedicated to my firearms collection. They’re all in large safes. All the ammunition is stored separately to the rifles and the pistols. If you have more than 15 or so pistols, you’ve got to have a monitored alarm. If someone were to break into my house, or into my gun room, an alarm would go off and the police would be notified immediately. The police are required to inspect your gun room. Since 1996, the police have inspected mine three or four times. While they can come randomly, they normally put a call through and we arrange an agreeable time to come in and inspect it. I’m happy for them to do it. I want them to see that it’s safe. |
The conclusion is very interesting:
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People who love to shoot in Australia look at the situation in America with dismay. We all want to be able to continue our sport. All these mass killings are giving it a bad name. It’s making everybody fear people like me, where they should have no fear. One big difference is that in Australia, we think owning a gun is a privilege, and in America people think of it as a right. When then Prime Minister John Howard proposed the gun law I marched like everybody else did in opposition to it. But I now fully endorse what he did. I didn’t like handing over my rifles, but at the end of the day, it’s a small price to pay not to have the nut-jobs walking through shopping centers and massacring innocent people. Australia is a great country. You can go hunting, you can go shooting. And as long as you hurt nobody and abide the law you can continue to do it. That to me is freedom. The idea of having people own guns with no concept of gun safety and no reason to have a gun? That is not my idea of freedom. |
There are guns in Australia. People who have a reason to have one can have one, as long as they fall within certain parameters. But the average person on the street is not going to be carrying one, and I have no expectation that anyone I randomly meet is going to be carrying one. And that's how I like it.
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