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9th September 2021, 12:29 AM #31
Not sure if this is funny, sad or just an plain old dumb. I went for dumb myself and had a chuckle to myself, but it really wasn't funny as it was deadly serious.
Half a mile from my sons house is a liquor shop (store) and on the front door there us a big sign that looks almost identical to the mock-up below.
NO UNREGISTEREDAlmost forgot.... There was a cardboard box outside the door for unregistered fire arms to be left in whilst owner was in the shop. Oh yeah, and no one to keep an eye on any that may have been placed in the box.
FIRE ARMS
ALOUD IN THIS STORE
LEAVE THEM OUTSIDE!
Kind of like. It's alright to rob or shoot me with a registered gun but woe betide anyone if they do it with an unregistered one.
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9th September 2021, 08:39 AM #32GOLD MEMBER
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Looks like they have a spelling problem also.
Tom
"It's good enough" is low aim
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9th September 2021, 08:39 AM #33
Neil
Being a revolver, that is extremely cowboyish and under the circumstances, appropriate!
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9th September 2021, 12:51 PM #34SENIOR MEMBER
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I've posted a few links on page 1 of this thread about that but the answer is basically none or very few. I remember reading that there were armed civilians at the Walmart shooting and some of the said they didn't want to fire in the crowd and others said they didn't want to be mistaken for the bad guy. So not only is it an extremely rare event but having guns at the scene of a mass shooting doesn't automatically mean there is going to be a good outcome.
Also read Myth#4 in the site below
10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down – Mother Jones
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Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. The NRA have often stated that guns in the right hands reduce crime. In the case of mass shootings, clearly they do not. Of course those gun toting people nearby would say that, wouldn't they? Guns are carried by the fearful.
I wouldn't have said that mass shootings are rare events. Wikipedia's count for 2021 is 470. 470!
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The NRA is wrong! Have a read below of one of the many research sites that have disproved that comment
Also, one of the NRA academics produced a book "More guns less crime" which has been debunked dozens of times in university studies. The one stat that's indisputable is "more guns, more gun deaths"
The “Good Guy with a Gun” Myth | Giffords
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17th September 2021, 01:23 AM #41
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17th September 2021, 02:11 AM #42
I never said he didn't like it. However he and family would be out of there in a shot (pun) if they could. It's all too easy to say "don't like it - leave!" but definitely not all that easy to do especially if you have family, other ties, commitments and bugger all money.
I packed up the family and left Melb for Perth and beyond at 25. No money, no job, no where to live and no prospects. The next 15-20 years were the hardest of our lives. Same happened to my wife and her family when they uprooted from Scotland and came to Australia back in 1960. Neither of us wouldn't wish that on our son and his family even though he went through it with us as a 4 year old youngster until his late teens.
Living in poverty wasn't fun back then and I'm sure it's a hell of a lot worse now. Would that we were in a position to be able to help them but we're not.
If anyone wants to give us about $500,000 to bring them home and settle them back here on OZ please feel free. (he says tongue in cheek) I'm sure they'd greatly appreciate it.
Love it or leave it - easy to say, hard to do.
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I can't say I've ever been to Texas but I did spend a few years living in New York, in Manhattan but mostly 50 kms up the Hudson, and I loved both the place and the people. I still have mates there with whom I stay when visiting.
SWMBO was heavily pregnant with our third child when we moved into our house in Westchester County. Within a couple of days of moving in, at least three of our neighbours came knocking on the door armed with pies and other food by way of welcome. Two brand new mates from work travelled 100kms and 140kms each way (!) to help me paint the house in time for the new arrival.
Every place has its share of maddies and its own peculiarities, Oz included. Our media don't help with their insular views on the US, mostly without telling the whole story. Neither American exceptionalism nor parts of their constitution have helped; but Australia exhibits its own form of exceptionalism by highlighting America's failings by comparison with our own society. It makes everyone feel better to think that our place is better than theirs, but its not. It's just different.
mick
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