10-20-2015, 03:04 PM
Jesus Christ, Gunnar.
Miss the point --> aha! get the point --> deflect the point with nonsense.
Australia still has some multiple victim murders, but less than the U.S. per capita. They define a mass murder as 5 or more victims in a single incident. They have not had a mass murder by shooting in the 19 years since they enacted strict national gun laws (though they'd had several leading up to the Port Arthur massacre which prompted the crack down on gun ownership and severely limited certain gun types). The U.S., meanwhile, has had several hundred such mass shooting victims during the same period. Them's the facts and that was the point.
Australia has not experienced anywhere near an increase in the number of fatalities by knifing massacres and/or baseball bat massacres that they experienced from mass shootings.
And, to the best of my knowledge, Australia has not experienced an increase anywhere near the number of fatalities by mass murderers using arson and/or bombs as they experienced during mass murders by shooting.
So, your bit about victims of mass knifing and baseball bat massacres sitting around in a support group and wishing their loved ones had instead been murdered by the more civilized gun is nonsensical deflective sarcasm (nobody does that better than you though, so credit where due
).
Miss the point --> aha! get the point --> deflect the point with nonsense.
Australia still has some multiple victim murders, but less than the U.S. per capita. They define a mass murder as 5 or more victims in a single incident. They have not had a mass murder by shooting in the 19 years since they enacted strict national gun laws (though they'd had several leading up to the Port Arthur massacre which prompted the crack down on gun ownership and severely limited certain gun types). The U.S., meanwhile, has had several hundred such mass shooting victims during the same period. Them's the facts and that was the point.
Australia has not experienced anywhere near an increase in the number of fatalities by knifing massacres and/or baseball bat massacres that they experienced from mass shootings.
And, to the best of my knowledge, Australia has not experienced an increase anywhere near the number of fatalities by mass murderers using arson and/or bombs as they experienced during mass murders by shooting.
So, your bit about victims of mass knifing and baseball bat massacres sitting around in a support group and wishing their loved ones had instead been murdered by the more civilized gun is nonsensical deflective sarcasm (nobody does that better than you though, so credit where due
).