I guess I’m not over this yet. I am NOT going to immerse myself in gun control or the gun culture, but this has been playing more and more on my mind as I’ve looked further into the issue. So I’ve still got one or two things to get out of my system. This one’s more about Australia than the US.
Quite a few people have offered the “why don’t they ban cars?” line in the gun control debate. Cars have been used as lethal weapons in some instances with courts deciding that the intent to kill was indeed deliberate. It’s quite a small number of cases compared to gun deaths, but it happens.
However, I think the car argument is a diversion in the debate on gun control. Pro-gun people seem to want to talk about one of these two issues only if you talk about the other as well, as if they’re inextricably linked. They’re not. They CAN and should be debated separately as one has nothing to do with the other.
People do use cars the wrong way, though. Here’s an Australian example shown on one of our current affairs TV shows late last year. The following video is truly scary stuff. The video goes for just over 8 minutes and I’d urge you to watch it all.
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Pro-gun people in Australia would like to see freer access to firearms. Some would like to see access to semi-automatic weapons and/or concealed carry laws introduced.
Sooooooooo, imagine the guy in the black ute with a gun. In fact, imagine both of these guys carrying guns.
How do you think this would have ended?