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by bigkm 2844 days ago
Most of Australia was fine with this.
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As an Australian, who has many issues with these surveillance laws, I'm also 100% behind our gun control.
I'm an outsider that feels the same. I could never move to Australia due to its stances on privacy and censorship but the gun control is an attraction.
Just so you know, if you want a gun here it's not rocket science. Go to a gun club, watch a fire guns being fired, go do a test and buy a safe.

Congrats, you can now buy rifles and shotguns.

There was a recent case of a father who was rejected from 3 gun clubs because he was too shifty and yet the 4th accepted him and the cops didn't see any reason to reject him. He bought a rifle and shot both his teenage kids at his x-wife's house.

Also you just have to pickup the weekly papers to see cops are afraid of the rising gang violence and the amount of illegal guns that they are finding and being used.

But airsoft guns are illegal so i feel so much safer than countries like NZ that let you buy AR-15s /s

What do you see as the difference between them?
between surveillance laws and gun control?
I'm an Australian and I'm not ok with our gun laws.
Just like most of Australia is fine with this law. This is what enlightened centerism is giving us at the moment.