Gun Control & RKBA

SecularMotion

(7,981 posts) Mon Apr 25, 2016, 04:04 PM Apr 2016

Strange Politics: Gun lobby’s zealot fringe mobilises online

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JUST mention gun control and every Yosemite Sam and his dog comes out with keyboards blazing, champing at the bit to teach some namby-pamby wuss a lesson in statistics.

The New South Wales Greens this week released data obtained through a freedom of information request revealing the number of legally registered firearms in each of the state's postcodes.

Someone in the latte-sipping heartland (a term critics later directed my way) of inner Sydney around La Perouse had a private cache of 302 guns; another in Mosman had 278.

Hardly a couple of knockabout cockies keeping the foxes at bay, but still two completely law-abiding citizens who happen to enjoy firearms, as far as anyone knows.

http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/news/strange-politics-gun-lobbys-zealot-fringe/2997902/

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Strange Politics: Gun lobby’s zealot fringe mobilises online (Original Post) SecularMotion Apr 2016 OP

So, the Daily Examiner discovers da Internet. woopee. Eleanors38 Apr 2016 #1

If the gun control lobby understood statistics, benEzra Apr 2016 #2

Wonder if the goon that published this pile even knows what gun is pictured? ileus Apr 2016 #3

I'm no expert but it looks like an assault sniper shotgun with armor piercing clips. Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2016 #5

I thought Australia had solved all their gun violence issues. Straw Man Apr 2016 #4

Just out of curiosity, what defines "zealotry"? Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2016 #6

Laffo's jimmy the one Apr 2016 #7

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

1. So, the Daily Examiner discovers da Internet. woopee.

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 04:39 PM

Apr 2016

benEzra

(12,148 posts)

2. If the gun control lobby understood statistics,

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 06:53 PM

Apr 2016

maybe they'd take a more rational approach to the issue, instead of constantly decrying handgrips that stick out and shoulder things that go up.

ileus

(15,396 posts)

3. Wonder if the goon that published this pile even knows what gun is pictured?

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Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:16 PM

Apr 2016

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Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)

5. I'm no expert but it looks like an assault sniper shotgun with armor piercing clips.

Reply to ileus (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 09:17 AM

Apr 2016

Straw Man

(6,625 posts)

4. I thought Australia had solved all their gun violence issues.

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 02:18 AM

Apr 2016

Why are they still discussing this?

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)

6. Just out of curiosity, what defines "zealotry"?

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 09:18 AM

Apr 2016

jimmy the one

(2,708 posts)

7. Laffo's

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Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:45 PM

Apr 2016

One of these LAFOs - Law Abiding Firearms Owners, as they call themselves - was actively campaigning to overturn the Federal Govt's ban on importing the dismembered heads of lions.

Hahaha! Can't stop LAFFing!
Dunno if I like LAFO better than LARGO, or LAGO; .. LAFFO sums up a small portion of 'fabricating' gun owners, but gives them a backhanded compliment.

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