We have video games in Australia. We have mental illness in Australia. We have bigotry in Australia. We also have gun control. Number of mass shootings in Australia in last *30 YEARS*: 1 Number of mass shootings in America in last 6 MONTHS: 255
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We've never had the American cowboy/Hollywood ethos of fix it with a bullet.
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Australians certainly have a similar history of using violence and murder to colonise, but I tend to agree that the right to bear arms is not quite as welded into our psyche as it is in the US.
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The difference is, in Australia we watched Walter Mikac talk about his baby, young daughter and wife, murdered in the shootings at Port Arthur. We wept & demanded change. Parents who lost children at SandyHook were accused of inventing them. The US values guns, not children.
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