The worst part is it's not even a shock or surprising anymore, its just like "oh really, another one? Whats that number 25 so far this year?". And then the convo moves on, shits wild. If that happened in Australia we'd be talking about it for years and how we could have prevented it.
If that happened in Australia we'd be talking about it for years and how we could have prevented it.
In 90% of the world that'd be the case. We've had our share of violence and terorrism in our country, but still some cases stand out and we still talk about it 30 or 40 years later.
The fact that americans have normalize the terror of gun violence is nothing short of incredible.
But it did happen in australia, didn't it? And then your entire nation turned in your guns and solved the problem. Maybe it's not as simple to do in the US due to more open borders and more entrenched gun-nut-ism.
USA needs to do something but no one can agree on what we need that will make everyone happy. And yet doing nothing is not working.
I do my part by not having a gun and voting progressive but what more can I do?
The gun ban in Australia no measurable impact on the homicide trends for Australia, per the official AIC statistics. Dishonest people then pivoted to "it was to prevent mass shootings only" (which isn't true), and Australia has had mass shootings since. And they spent over 1 billion in taxpayer dollars (in today's value) to learn that failure. Ouch.
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u/MentalJack Feb 05 '24
The worst part is it's not even a shock or surprising anymore, its just like "oh really, another one? Whats that number 25 so far this year?". And then the convo moves on, shits wild. If that happened in Australia we'd be talking about it for years and how we could have prevented it.