Something I think isn't fully articulated often is how difficult it is to make a culture dramatically change in a short amount of time.
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Imagine you have a donkey, and you let it do whatever donkey stuff for five years, then you try to saddle it up for a leisurely-- oh there went your teeth.
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Now take that same donkey, and break it to the saddle when it's young, and suddenly being saddled and ridden is just a thing that has always happened.
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Cultures are like that. Australia is gun-broken because they didn't have the will, and now it's not something they even think about.
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Replying to @SaucercrabZero
Australia got gun-broken because the politicians swept in before "gun culture" took hold.
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Replying to @0xdeadbabe
I have no idea how that happened. Everything on that rock is constructed of murder.
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it was mostly an off-shore debtors prison, is my understanding of it. that and a "service guarantees citizenship" experiment.
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