It probably will happen, but still nothing will happen.
This is correct.
I basically gave up after that.
The right to bear arms. I can live with it to a degree IF all they can have is a simple (lol simple) 6 shooter.
What makes no sense to me is why right to bear arms allows them to carry semi-automatic rifles that can kill 100’s in minutes? What the hell do they need that for?
Pollies are not going to win the banning of all guns, so don’t try it. Just try and ban the ones that kill lots of people very quickly.
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Give Tim Fischer his due - he had to sell the controls to the rural communities. The advocate for relaxation of gun laws - Bridget McKenzie - has gone quiet
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But I don’t think we had a hundred years of ‘right to bear arms’ guns for sale at your local sports store and a rampant NRA.
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Not sure why little Johnny gets so much credit, he just bent to public will and what his advisers were reporting. It was a no brainer. And we never had an appetite for arsenal here anyway. I’ll give him credit for modern Australia. And he can farking keep it the rat cunning little ■■■■.
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Ah America, where everyone can have a gun, but not everyone can have health care…I’m ready to get back home.
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At least Trump has done something this time. He has ordered all flags to be flown at half mast. (Probably even for a day or two).
Free delivery, all you need to buy one of these in Texas is a Texas home address.
Or if you want a classic machine gun Colts are for sale legally to all.
Lucky no-one shoots us old white guys, as we are the ones with most guns.
Lots of old white guys shoot themselves with their guns though 
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Dump has been and presumably still is golfing throughout. There’s a selfie taken by someone in a wedding party showing him laughing and posing for the camera at his golf club in NJ. Every couple of months one of these anecdotes surfaces out of the enormous constant sea of urine that still manages to shock me.
I won’t make any comment on the link between video games and the causes for mass-shootings, but I will comment that the use of first-person shooter games absolutely prepares anyone who carries through with the act to be better at it. Everything from developing a basic knowledge of how to move through a building, enter rooms, identify choke points, etc, to actual weapon handling and firing technique. It may sound crazy, but I can tell you it’s fact. The Army is constantly searching or ways to improve training and gamification is a massive part of that. The more we use simulation and scenario-based training environments, the more effective training becomes and the quicker you can adapt to advanced training scenarios in live environments (ie - going from an indoor simulator to actual real-time training in a field or urban setting). Regardless of motivation or mental health status, a person who has played a lot of FPS games is going to be inherently more dangerous in a mass-shooting event than someone who hasn’t.
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That’s very unfair, he was as moved and passionate about this as the ordinary Aussie was. He may have been many things but on this he did the right thing and did it passionately.
Silly comparison. There’s no nationalised gun system. You have to pay for them.
Yeah, the evil little ■■■■ knew how to do passion.
As I said, he may be many things, but he did this one well. Why some of you can’t say that is beyond me.
In that case, not all that different to flight simulator training pilots do I suppose.
If I’m paying $500 for a Glock, I’d want free shipping also.
Mate, it’s a joke made by many who live here, especially the ex-pats.