Originally Posted by
Cyclaholic
...and if you guys want to debate gun ownership best you keep it to U.S. issues because you don't seem very well acquainted with the gun landscape here in Oz. The overwhelming majority of our population is very happy with tight gun control and wants it tighter. Around here gun advocates are virtually non existent.
FWIW I'm eternally grateful that we don't have anything like the gun ownership you guys have. How on earth anyone can truly believe that 'an armed society is a polite society' or that walking around with a gun on your hip will make one iota of difference if that big bad gubbermint decides to get all oppressive on you, is beyond me.... an armed society is a dangerous and paranoid society, a polite society is polite out of mutual respect, not fear of being sumarily executed by a random stranger.
Over here in the Netherlands more and more people wish they had a firearm, as violent crime (including gun crime) is all around: people get beaten to death by "youths", *****, robbed, cars set on fire, etc. It doesn't help that certain religious figures are encouraging these "youths" to "harm the infidels any way possible".