A question for Autrailians from a curious American Mate

To be plain, I prefer things straight from the horses mouth;
What do Austrailians think of gun control; not your ordinary vetting; I mean your out & out restrictive your not trustworthy enough to own guns, even though you have Military service with medals and enough fruit salad for ten men.... and zero criminal offenses or anything even remotely negative, including a clean civilian record.
What say ye ?

 

You can hold a guns license for various activities including the ridding vermon on properties and shooting clubs. I certainly feel safer in Australia than what I did in the USA knowing there are less guns on the street and a lot of Sh!t went down there regarding guns in my extended stay. Just about everyone knew someone who had been involved in a shooting incident or had been affected personally.

A few farmers over this way wiped out their whole families and those guys had clean records, so I'm not sure it stands for much having a clean record. I like the fact that there are next to no guns on the street but those hardened criminals who mostly belong to gangs and take down each other. Guns kill much more easily than knives or fists when someone is upset. Gun control overall for mind is paramount to safe societies. That's what I think anyway.

 

I’m British rather than Australian but I suspect the answer is similar; We don’t.

Gun control as a significant socio-political issue is pretty much unique to the USA. Anywhere else I don’t think it’s given any major consideration and even in the rare cases of some high-profile incident involving guns happens, questions about legal ownership rarely take priority.

 

Thank you for the frank answers !

I have met many fine people from Australia over the years and I always wanted to visit and see the World famous places of your Country.

I also want to try Austrailian beer that did not spend any time in a can !

 

I'd say that's unreasonable. Whoever is subjecting someone to that treatment needs to be sorted out.

 

Ahem - I gather if you have a user name like Dr Who you may have actually watched the BBC series a time or two.

The Doctor sums up how we and the Brits think about guns - he does not use one despite weekly run ins with slobbering salivating aliens out to take over/control/eat humanity

It is not that the Good Doctor is against guns - or even wholesale slaughter of Daleks but he usually prefers NOT to have one as there are other ways of dealing with issues.

I am with TV - the truth is you are safer without guns

 

I was not out to debate anyone, I simply asked an honest question and got honest freindly answers, just as the nice a time I spent driving around a guy from Australia when his car broke down near the shop I worked at.

 

Not a lot. Guns don't intrude into my life. Being an urban dweller, I have no use for guns. The only guns I see are those being carried by police.

I also dislike canned beer. Beer has to be served in glass. There are heaps of great beers brewed in Australia. Just stay clear of the generic brands like Victoria Bitter, XXXX etc. Coopers from South Australia and Boags from Tasmania brew nice beers. You need to go to a good bottle shop and check out some of the boutique beers. I'm a lover of Pilsner styled beers.

 

No you put up a strawman and was surprised when we set it on fire and showed it for what it was

We just do not worry about not having a gun.

 

I don't think about guns.

It's not part of anyone's dialogue that I know of in Sydney in the wide-ish circles I move in.

America's obsession with guns for the most part is an ALIEN concept to Australians.

 

Gun ownership has not been a major issue for a long time. The last time it was an issue was when one person killed several others at Port Arthur. The response by the new PM was a round up of many guns. There were a few protests, but no major campaign to oppose this. Apart from isolated voices that was the last time the issue came up. Before the Port Arthur incident it was not a major issue either. Australia does not have in its constitution the right to have an armed militia like the US does.

Put another way I agree with the civil replies you have had to the OP's question.

 

I don't give two (*)(*)(*)(*)s about what they think about gun control. What I want them to to is stop sending over that ****** (*)(*)(*)(*)ing awful Foster's (*)(*)(*)(*). For (*)(*)(*)(*) sake do you not have any decency at all?

 

Exactly what I would have said. After the Port Arthur massacre there was a lot of media coverage about guns and gun control, but I don't recall anyone other than politicians and current affairs presenters talking about it.

Is there any point to this thread?

 

The greatest mass shootings in peacetime until the Norwegian mass shootings in 2011.

I attended three rallies (in a work capacity) in three different cities. There was a fair bit of 'argy bargy' on both sides.

 

No Australian with a clear head drinks Fosters, that's why we send it to America. I can't remember the last time I saw it for sale here, then again I'm not looking.

 

Guns are like cool and (*)(*)(*)(*). Pretty fun to shoot.

Don't think I have much use for an AR-15 for home defence though, but it'd be fun if gun clubs were allowed to have them for people to use at the range.

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He cheated by also using explosives.

 

No need in the home or car. Lack of proliferation means it's a non-issue for normal folks, except for the organized crime fella's who like to intimidate each other and feel gangsta but they tend to keep to themselves. It means Police can be more relaxed and act like humans a little more - and importantly they and judiciary can be real heavy when anything does involve guns which further helps keep them off the streets. If you like gun's, and who wouldn't, buy a property out bush or use a licensed range.

 

If anyone wants to know more about this massacre here is a reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)

Gun laws in Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)

 

Everything in Australia was fine regarding gun ownership, until some nit-wit lost it, and killed a few people down in Port Arthur Tasmania.

Australians are a bunch of scaredy cat sheep, and very easily conned. So it didn't take much for politicians to take away their guns, and their rights to protect themselves.

This was no great surprise, considering the majority of the population have IQ under 65, and know more about football rules and the players lives, than they do about their own Government system.

 

Nobody set anything on fire, I hold Australians in high esteem for reasons I need not explain, and with the high respect I have for Austrailians, I will accept those answers.

I do love Pilsner beers, and dark beer and bitter beer, as well as froofy poofy sweet ales !!
We have many of those ales, almost a sweet champagne....

 

If I were several hundred years younger and not on my 13th and final incarnation, I might wish to woo a nice Austrailian lady of two score or so, too young I know..... At least as a companion......
I will just fade away lol.....


"There is some evil in all of us, Doctor – even you. The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation, and I may say you do not improve with age."

The Master to the Sixth Doctor, The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe "

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" DOCTOR: Would it be too much to ask what all this is about?

INQUISITOR: The accused will remain silent until invited to speak.

DOCTOR: The accused? Do you mean me?

INQUISITOR: I call upon the Valeyard to open the case.

VALEYARD: By order of the High Council, this is an impartial enquiry into the behaviour of the accused person, known as the Doctor, who is charged that he, on diverse occasions has been guilty of conduct unbecoming a Time Lord.

DOCTOR: Not guilty!

VALEYARD: He is also charged with, on diverse occasions, transgressing the First Law. It is my unpleasant task, Madam Inquisitor, to prove to the enquiry that the Doctor is an incorrigible meddler in the affairs of other peoples and planets.

INQUISITOR: Yes. I see, Valeyard, that it is on record that the Doctor has faced trial already for offences of this nature. "

 

Queenslander - don't drink fosters

Prefer Pure Blonde actually

 

The difference e here is that guns not in use must be secured.

The very acto of ensuring securement appears to impact strongly on gun suicide and gun homicide

 

The difference e here is that guns not in use must be secured.

The very acto of ensuring securement appears to impact strongly on gun suicide and gun homicide

 

There is no statistical evidence to support that statement BB.