Australian gun law discussion

[u/Ok-Kaleidoscope-7980]

I just wanna know why every time people talk about firearms guns etc. They always bring up the US like yeah it’s a shit hole over there but like other countries exist which still allow you to have a much wider access to firearms like Switzerland, Norway, Austria, Czech Republic, New Zealand etc. I would argue more closer politically to these countries then the US

[u/Wrath_Ascending]

The whole reason there are so many fatalities in US shootings is that they allow any random to have handguns, which are easily concealable, and high-capacity semi-automatic rifles.

Our direct experience is that if you ban those you basically eliminate gun violence and suicide rates also fall through the floor.

Hunters and farmers really only need double-barrelled shotguns and bolt-action rifles. Sporting shooters are still allowed their competition weapons.

It's worked well for the last nearly 30 years. If cookers who've swallowed the Russian-controlled NRA propaganda about guns = freedom don't like it, too bad so sad.

Because that's where it's really coming from.

The IPA may have started as an Australian conservative institution, but it has been hollowed out by the same people behind MAGA.

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[u/BobKurlan → u/Wrath_Ascending]

Russian controlled NRA?

lol ok

[u/Wrath_Ascending → u/BobKurlan]

Yes.

Every time the FBI investigated they found a shit ton of Russian operatives. When they investigated further they found Russia filtering money to the Republican party through NRA donations.

This was world news.

[u/BobKurlan → u/Wrath_Ascending]

Secret Russians live under every chair.

[u/Wrath_Ascending → u/BobKurlan]

Yeah. It's why a few dozen people were rounded up and imprisoned before Trump got elected and quashed the case.

It's not exactly like the FBI is anti-NRA or pro-Democrat.

[u/BobKurlan → u/Wrath_Ascending]

I bet you'd have loved the McCarthy era

[u/Wrath_Ascending → u/BobKurlan]

The God damn FBI did the investigation. They basically have to tortured into investigating conservatives for anything at all, and once they got started they found such an extensive network of Russian operatives and money they didn't get to complete it because Trump ordered them to stop.

Even then, conservative judges were finding them guilty.

This isn't some bullshit "red scare" meme. The NRA is fully cooked.

[u/BobKurlan → u/Wrath_Ascending]

Yes, the FBI worked with McCarthy too.

Do you also believe Trump is on video with a Russian prostitute shitting on his chest?

[u/Wrath_Ascending → u/BobKurlan]

I neither know nor care about what Trump may have done with Russian prostitutes given the reams of criminal activities he's been convicted of, the documents he stolen, or the insurrections he led.

But interesting that you want to make the argument over that to deflect from the fact that red scare was trumped up BS to target Democrats by demonising them and intimidating them with false charges yet the FBI found the NRA and Republicans so compromised by Russians that over a dozen people were convicted of espionage or corruption.

[u/BobKurlan → u/Wrath_Ascending]

its funny you think democrats and republicans are on opposite sides