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Re:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working... by bsanr2 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:57PM (#21652056)
I imagine we'd do it like Australia did, where the cop/population and population/land ratios are presumably even worse.
Re:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working... by 4ntonius8lock on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:03PM (#21652112)
I'm not very well acquainted with what happened in Australia.

Since you are bringing them up, you must be.

So tell me gun ownership statistics for Australia and participation in gun ownership organizations. I'd be interested to hear what happened there and learn.

I mean I know they pretty much disarmed, and I've seen the positive statistics paraded by anti-gun supporters, but I've yet to hear about the details of what % of the population was armed, what % the population supported disarming, ratio between gun owners and cops, etc. That would say a lot about the feasibility comparison.

Since you are implying the feasibility of disarmament was worse in Australia, I'd love to learn about the exact details that allowed you to come to your educated conclusion that it's worse in Australia. I'm always happy to learn about things I didn't know about.

Unless that is you are just assuming. Like when you said 'take their guns' without even considering feasibility and then you ignored posts that confront you with contradictory evidence to your assumptions. There's a certain type of attitude that will base their conclusions on made up information (aka assumed... I can't say you are presuming as you don't seem to have the data needed to make this about probability), without bothering to check or even ignoring contradictory realities as perceived and recorded by human consensus. It's not very pretty.

Re:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working... by bsanr2 on Thursday November 28, 2019 @11:34AM (#21658513)
>I'm always happy to learn about things I didn't know about.

If this is true, you'll be happy to do your own research. The Australian experience with an assault weapon ban, gun buybacks, and a firearms registry is well-known to anyone remotely serious about gun ownership discourse, and the fact that you aren't familiar with it casts into doubt the ostensible good faith with which you've approached me with this short essay of glib intellectual overextension.

The italicized "ass" in "assuming" is cute, and also 100% against HN's code of conduct, by the way.

Re:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working... by shadowgovt on Thursday November 28, 2019 @03:21PM (#21659936)
Gun buyback program.