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31st December 2013, 03:57 #11
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Re: Now it is hospital shootings
" Likewise, if more people carried on a regular basis and were well trained, the chances would be much higher that a single well placed shot would end a lot more crime situations"
It's statements like this that convince me it's no use discussing gun control with Americans.
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31st December 2013, 13:25 #12
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Originally Posted by TheFamousEccles"Old roats am jake mit goats."
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31st December 2013, 14:47 #13
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Re: Now it is hospital shootings
Originally Posted by StarterDuncan Rollo
The more you learn, the more you realise how little you know.
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31st December 2013, 17:18 #14
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Originally Posted by TheFamousEccles
Quite a few procedures used in the US by cops are a result of the Newhall Masacre, where a couple of well armed and trained thugs decided to shoot it out with the cops. The first hit scored on said thugs was by a civilian who came to assist the cops.
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31st December 2013, 18:48 #15
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Originally Posted by D-Type"Old roats am jake mit goats."
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1st January 2014, 01:10 #16
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Originally Posted by SpafrancoWhen in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout
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1st January 2014, 15:48 #17
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Re: Now it is hospital shootings
Originally Posted by Valve Bounce
"unfortunately, the NRA has a very powerful lobby, and thanks to the internet, this power has increased dramatically." Any organization only has power if there is support behind it. Otherwise it is the classic "paper tiger". So you are saying it was powerful before the internet and now is even more so. That means that there are an awful lot of people supporting it.
"Any politician who does not conform with their wishes or line of action get's voted out." That's pretty much the way a democracy works. What the voting majority wants, that's what they get.
I gather you don't support that majority view. Sorry about that. There are a lot of majority positions I don't support either and I have to live with it too."Old roats am jake mit goats."
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2nd January 2014, 01:40 #18
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Very very good reply, Skater. The point I make is simply that the NRA can mobilise a huge number of voters who normally couldn't give a shyte about politics, but will vote against any politician who tries to introduce any safety measures into gun control. IF that's your idea of democracy, then I am very happy we don't have the NRA controlling our democracy in Australia.
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2nd January 2014, 02:25 #19
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Originally Posted by Valve Bounce
At best, we can claim that our democracy is only slightly less destroyed than in America or Europe. i.e. nothing at all to be proud of.I am anaspeptic, pharismotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
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2nd January 2014, 11:25 #20
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Not any more we can't.
The privatisation of Australia Post, Medicare, the ABC and SBS, have all been suggested by the IPA. Holden and Ford have vowed to end production in Australia by 2017 and the NBN will never do as intended.
But at least we've "stopped the boats"... well not really, but the government has stopped reporting on them, and disbanded AUSAID and appointed former IPA member Tim Wilson to the head of the Human Rights Commission, an organisation which he called for the abolition of. At the same time child care workers lost their appeal to have their minimum wage raised because of "union interference" whilst at the same time a former head of the Business Council of Australia is now an advisor to the PM.
Australia has democracy? Ha. If you have a post code between 2000-2108, 3000-3030, 3120-3125, 6000-6009, you own the politicians. And if you're Clive Palmer, you are one.The Old Republic was a stupidly run organisation which deserved to be taken over. All Hail Palpatine!
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