Posted on 01/14/2013 11:29:41 AM PST by Mozilla
This video was sent to me by an Aussie friend, pleading with me to not allow ourselves to go the way of OZ. It has gotten so crazy there, that legislators are quibbling over the definition of a home invasion, so as not to admit that gun control has made Australians less safe.
Check out the video.
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I worry that in an emergency situation, I'd respond the wrong way. The everyday stuff would be OK with full attention.
Having spent a fair amount of time crossing the streets in Boston, I'm still used to looking both ways on one way (and all) streets....
Well, see, that's just it. We don't always drive with full attention. Distractions abound.
We lost all of the officers from one of our P-3 crews near Sydney in 1982. They had flown in to the Aussie base there and took a base car out to dinner. Leaving, the O driving did the American look left-clear-drive into right-hand lane... right into a head on with a sheep tractor-trailer rig.
Took them all out.
I'll never forget it.
I think you’re being a little over-sensitive here. I’ve been on FreeRepublic for years, and have only seen Australia come up in gun law discussions maybe a few times. If anything, we usually focus on the UK as the example of what not to do. As for Canadians, I think we just ignore them because they are so busy trying not to be Americans that we don’t expect them to be reasonable about anything.
Post-script:
Seems to me, you’re the one with the problem, yet it’s far too common to see the UK, Canada and Australia being pointed to as having major crime issues. May I suggest you, in the US, deal with your own, and when you have solved the crime problem you have, get back to us?
Inflating Australian crime numbers isn’t going to have an iota of effect on yours. Fair Dinkum!
They knew what was going on in Europe during their time. And eventually free Americans had to go and save their ungrateful butts from tyrants.
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