It's curious how the narrative of "gun control doesn't work" has gotten entrenched over the years despite the evidence against it.https://twitter.com/Honxqp/status/915199302644899840 …
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Replying to @GidMK
no argument against gun control from me. No hyperbole about Howard's tightening of existing control either.
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It depended entirely on the state, actually. NSW was pretty strict, QLD and TAS much less so. The NFA standardized as much as it restricted
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Replying to @GidMK
just think the conditions that led to current excellent state of affairs are cultural as well as legislative, and weren't born at a stroke.
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Well that's absolutely true. But I'd argue that legislation had a big hand in changing the culture
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Replying to @GidMK
agree, but the arguments ~for guns then weren't about citizens needing arms to repel the government..context substantially different in US.
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Really? Because I've had Australians make that argument to me for why we should repeal our gun control laws lol
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Replying to @GidMK
I think ~now we have significant and growing political problems arising from infection of Aus conservative politics by equivalent in US.
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Yeh, that's probably true. We do love to copy the US
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Replying to @GidMK
cross-pollination,for good & ill,interesting product of social media..grass roots calls for public health care in US maybe an eg of the good
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