Re:How the Australian government plans to access encrypted m...
by bogomipz on Sunday June 11, 2017 @11:16AM
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>"freedom-loving internet users will soon know how gun owners feel. every single bogus argument for gun control or "assault weapons" bans can, and will be, used against internet speech freedom and information privacy, now that the western political establishment has taken it upon themselves to strip you of your free speech rights after seeing how trivial it was stripping you of your guns, and how much enthusiasm their populaces had for it."
Wow what a total straw man. Firstly this is an article about Australia not the U.S. But I will get into why Australia is particularly relevant in your poor choice of straw man in a second.
Firstly, "Gun control" is not about wholesale elimination of gun ownerships but rather rather having some policy that permits its' ownership while still accounting for public safety. Your sentiment is typical FUD propaganda employed by lobbying groups like the NRA in the US - "they're coming to take your guns!" By the way the NRA is among the most powerful lobbying groups in the US[1], there is no such encryption/privacy lobby.
The central talking points in "Gun Control" are enforcing some common sense provisions like "back ground checks" to prevent mentally people unstable from owning guns. Or restricting civilian ownership of military-style assault rifles that don't have a compelling civilian use case in either hunting or self defense.
Australia has implemented both of these common sense provisions mentioned above - forbidding semi-automatic assault rifles and mandating back ground checks and waiting periods for gun purchases. And guess what? Australia doesn't the mass shootings that are so common they start to overlap each other's news cycles. There is no epidemic city like Chicago where 762 people in a single year were killed by guns[2] And plenty of Australians own guns. Australia implemented these after the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996. And not only does Australia have no shortage of people that own guns but gun ownership is on the rise [3]. You know what isn't on the rise though? Mass shootings of innocent civilians these went from 11 per year to zero after changes in legislation proposed in the wake of the Port Arthur Massacre[3].
Wow what a total straw man. Firstly this is an article about Australia not the U.S. But I will get into why Australia is particularly relevant in your poor choice of straw man in a second.
Firstly, "Gun control" is not about wholesale elimination of gun ownerships but rather rather having some policy that permits its' ownership while still accounting for public safety. Your sentiment is typical FUD propaganda employed by lobbying groups like the NRA in the US - "they're coming to take your guns!" By the way the NRA is among the most powerful lobbying groups in the US[1], there is no such encryption/privacy lobby.
The central talking points in "Gun Control" are enforcing some common sense provisions like "back ground checks" to prevent mentally people unstable from owning guns. Or restricting civilian ownership of military-style assault rifles that don't have a compelling civilian use case in either hunting or self defense.
Australia has implemented both of these common sense provisions mentioned above - forbidding semi-automatic assault rifles and mandating back ground checks and waiting periods for gun purchases. And guess what? Australia doesn't the mass shootings that are so common they start to overlap each other's news cycles. There is no epidemic city like Chicago where 762 people in a single year were killed by guns[2] And plenty of Australians own guns. Australia implemented these after the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996. And not only does Australia have no shortage of people that own guns but gun ownership is on the rise [3]. You know what isn't on the rise though? Mass shootings of innocent civilians these went from 11 per year to zero after changes in legislation proposed in the wake of the Port Arthur Massacre[3].
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/magazine/inside-the-power-...
[2] http://time.com/4635049/chicago-murder-rate-homicides/
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/05/guns-...