The shooting in San Bernardino, California marked the 355th mass shooting in the U.S. this year — or more than one per day on average so far in 2015 — according to groups monitoring such attacks in recent years. As much as I never want to accept stronger hurricanes as the new “normal,” it is still much easier than accepting gun massacres as the new “normal.” Both of which, I might add, are something our Republican Congress wants to do nothing about.
But Australia appears to be run by adults who understand the issues with assault weapons.
So you know how America has had countless gun shootings, including the murdering of school children and we all go to our respective corners and nothing gets done since the NRA owns Congress? Well, Australia is the total opposite. Ever since experiencing its most brutal gun shooting in history in the 1990 Port Arthur Massacre, Australia’s government banned assault weapons. As a result, no one has died from a mass-shooting on Australian soil today for the 7158th day in a row.
Screw Canada! Let’s all run away to Australia. After all, they have kangaroos (none of whom are armed).
Christina Upton, a cinema employee in Australia, was in awe at the fact that it has been more than 19 years since a heavily armed white Australian male murdered 35 people for no reason. Naturally, she feels the decades of peace is “probably” because the Australian government decided to strip her of a God-given right to own weapons that would make John Rambo blush.
Yeah, I mean the Yanks come across as sick people. This year there have been more mass shootings in America than calendar dates… But it wasn’t that long ago that Australia had postal workers holding their entire office hostage with AR-15s.
Upton tends to think that God-given rights play a bigger role in America’s mass shootings than Americans might think.
I don’t think America should be so hard on itself about the mental state of thousands of lonely white virgins. We have those people too.
The fact is that ammosexuals, their lust for guns and the Republican cowards in Congress willing to do the NRA’s bidding are extremely loud. So we just have to be louder if we want to stem the bleeding in America. You know, like our democratic neighbor down under has done and with much success.
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