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Re:A pre-K teacher on the trouble with lockdown drills by voltagex_ on Friday November 07, 2014 @01:58AM (#8571478)
I live in Australia - hence why the gun situation in the US seems crazy to me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Australia

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Re:A pre-K teacher on the trouble with lockdown drills by duncan_bayne on Friday November 07, 2014 @04:27AM (#8571756)
Greetings from Melbourne - from an Australian who'd be perfectly happy with open carry being legal over here.
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Re:A pre-K teacher on the trouble with lockdown drills by voltagex_ on Friday November 07, 2014 @06:17AM (#8572008)
Why? Are we under threat?
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Re:A pre-K teacher on the trouble with lockdown drills by duncan_bayne on Saturday November 08, 2014 @04:17AM (#8576420)
Not any more than folks in any other Western country. I don't think there's any particularly pressing need (like there would be in, say, Nigeria) but at the same time I'd be totally okay with it.

I worry when Governments go out of their way to disarm their citizens; even if they're benevolent at the time, they often don't stay that way. Look up the history of disarmament in pre-WWII Germany and Russia.

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