Jennifer17
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We had several armed rebellions in Australia in our early days. One took over the government of the time. Look up the Rum Rebellion or the Eureka Stockade.
I am not sure what that means. Civil war over a right to allow people the means to shoot kids in classrooms?
We had several armed rebellions in Australia in our early days. One took over the government of the time. Look up the Rum Rebellion.
How much blood was spilled when Australia’s current gun laws went into effect?
IMO people threatening violence if the gun laws here are changed need to be put on a watch list.
But when it came time to enact sensible gun laws and save lives Australians went along with it peacefully, right? I don’t remember a civil war in Australia in my lifetime.
Maybe they had to go along with it because they don't have a bill of rights.
Australia does not have a bill of rights, and that, ultimately, is the reason it was able to confiscate guns. Australians have no constitutional right to bear arms, so seizing their weapons did not violate their constitutional rights. Gun confiscation in the United States would require violating not only the Second Amendment, but the fourth and fifth as well, and possibly even the first.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/06/25/the-australia-gun-control-fallacy/
I am not sure what that means. Civil war over a right to allow people the means to shoot kids in classrooms?
Maybe they had to go along with it because they don't have a bill of rights.
Australia does not have a bill of rights, and that, ultimately, is the reason it was able to confiscate guns. Australians have no constitutional right to bear arms, so seizing their weapons did not violate their constitutional rights. Gun confiscation in the United States would require violating not only the Second Amendment, but the fourth and fifth as well, and possibly even the first.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/06/25/the-australia-gun-control-fallacy/
Australia has a constitution which is linked the the British Bill of Rights, which your bill of rights is copied directly from.
And guns were not confiscated. People handed them in for the greater good of citizens. There was no confiscation.
And guns were not confiscated. People handed them in for the greater good of citizens. There was no confiscation.
bris(quote)
It may surprise some Australians to know that we do not have a Bill of Rights, and that the Constitution provides very few individual rights and protections to Australians.
https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/should-australia-have-a-bill-of-rights/
seAustralia Banned Automatic & Semi Automatic weapons.
I've posted a few links tonight showing people in the United States using firearms to defend themselves against the never ending bands of miscreants who mean all of us harm.
Most of these average citizens where able to prevent themselves and their families from being harmed without firing their gun or killing anyone.
I commend them for standing up against evil and not allowing themselves to become victims. JMO
bris
We have a constitution and laws enacted under that constitution. We also are protected by the rights of the British Bill of Rights.
se
No one went knocking on doors and confiscated those semi automatic weapons. Since you have been living in Australia, how many school shooting have you seen?
BBM
I understand, and, am pro 2nd Amendment. My cousin would be dead if she hadn't been able to get to her firearm. She still got badly beaten while struggling to get it. However, I don't see the 2A being rolled back in my lifetime. I have never lost a moment's sleep over it.
I think that we need to look within our own country, like;
Look at states that have had significant time periods, of low firearm death rates/violent crime, and see what they are doing.
Look at states that have made changes after mass shootings and it's been positive.
Look at the folks who committed the act instead of wishing them death.
Toss LWOP w/ mandatory therapy, on the table, instead of the DP, and learn what took them down that path. It may save lives, as well as the lives of future shooters and their families, who are also destroyed.
When I was 17 or so , I was swimming in the river, and sunning on the banks, with a cold beer, and nommin' on frog legs. WTH has happened?
That is why firearms in Australia have to be registered with Police. So they know exactly where you live and how many weapons and what type of weapons you own. They can come and check on your property anytime to see your guns are locked up as required.
You also used to have to do so many hours a month at a shooting range to maintain your weapons license.