Terrorist shooting in Australia

[NightDragon83]

Hiku said:

NightDragon83 said:
Good thing Australia has all those super tough gun laws to stop this guy from getting his hands on a gun...

No one ever claimed that gun control stops everyone from ever getting their hands on a gun.
Gun control makes it harder for someone to get a gun. A gun that costs $1000 in America and gets delivered to your door costs $34,000 on the black market in Australia. Up until 1996 there had been 11 massacres in Australia. The government banned guns. And there hasn't been a massacre since. Sure beats having a massacre every month like in the US, because of a law that was written so that civilians could form a militia and fight back against a tyrannical government, which is no longer possible today.

The Australian gov't didn't outright ban guns (which is a wet dream for the political left here in the US), they severely restricted the sale and usage of most guns and made the requirements for owning a gun even stricter.  The thing that many people fail to mention when pointing to Australia's gun laws as a model policy that should be replicated in some form in the US is that Australia already had realtively low gun crime rates prior to the 1996 gun control laws being instated...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Australia#/media/File:Gun_deaths_over_time_in_the_US_and_Australia.png

The US experienced a similar decline in gun crime over the same time period despite a far larger circulation of guns in the country, and the fact that the so-called "Assault Weapons Ban" which was enacted in 1994 and designed to curb the manufacture and sale of scary-looking rifles actually expired back in 2004.

And citizens can no longer rise up and challege a tyranically government in modern times?  Tell that to any number of countries in Central & South America and over in Africa / the Middle East.  And they're accomplishing it without the benefits of a constitutional right to arm and protect yourself.