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20-01-2016, 01:05
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#376
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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Originally Posted by latka
This is just getting way too crazy guys! And I fear that many individuals with the same opinion are on the loose throughout the world. A scary thought indeed!
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What is so crazy about being able to defend yourself from criminals?
Here's what happened in Australia when they turned in their guns. These aren't Americans in the video, these are Australians, including law enforcement. Crime skyrocketed after the guns were confiscated.
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20-01-2016, 01:11
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#377
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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Originally Posted by socaldmax
What is so crazy about being able to defend yourself from criminals?
Here's what happened in Australia when they turned in their guns. These aren't Americans in the video, these are Australians, including law enforcement. Crime skyrocketed after the guns were confiscated.
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OMG did you really just repeat that american gun lobby, donald trump clap trap
Crime did NOT sky rocket at all, thats a rediculous lie. And we havnt had a mass shooting since.
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20-01-2016, 01:12
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#378
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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Originally Posted by socaldmax
So then what do people do when a Stalin or Hitler or Mussolini comes to power?
Politely ask them to go away? Pray for another country to come along and save their unarmed asses? Just go along with the genocide and hope they don't get killed off as well?
Don't tell me it can't happen, it already did, and may happen again because the citizens couldn't stop it.
What a lovely way to live, like an ostrich or a chicken.
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Please inform yourself before you post nonsense!
Both dictators rose to the top through political process while the world was watching, the US included.
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20-01-2016, 01:13
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#379
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
Guys,
There is another option to carrying firearms onboard.
I own one of these, FlashLauncher | Pepperball
I have owned it for a few years.
It can fire solid plastic balls, capsicum filled balls, it has a laser sight, a built in torch.
You just leave it on a shelf in the saloon. Everyone thinks it's a torch.
It's sub lethal. It's as good as a firearm. It is gas powered so absolutely will not count as a firearm.
Dogs won't smell it.
I intend to keep a number of these in strategic positions on board.
It is purely a self defence weapon.
No, I don't have any affiliation with the manufacturer, I'm just really impressed with their product.
It's a safe and legal alternative.
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20-01-2016, 01:44
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#380
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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Originally Posted by socaldmax
What is so crazy about being able to defend yourself from criminals?
Here's what happened in Australia when they turned in their guns. These aren't Americans in the video, these are Australians, including law enforcement. Crime skyrocketed after the guns were confiscated.
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It really, really concerns me that some one would be foolish enough from 'outside' Australia to post stupid lies about Australia. So to balance off this silly video, please have a look at the following links, because most of Australia are laughing at the stupidity of the US Gun Lobby who produced that silly video.
When will the US learn from Australia? Stricter gun control laws save lives | Rebecca Peters | Opinion | The Guardian
Faking waves: how the NRA and pro-gun Americans abuse Australian crime stats
7.30 Report - 22/3/2000: Anti-gun campaigners apalled by NRA adverts
To make it very clear, MOST Australian's are proud of our gun controls. Hunting and sports with guns are alive and well in Australia, but we do have controls in place so if you say you want to shoot rabbits, we make sure you don't buy an AK47 to do so. If you have recently been arrested and charged with assaulting your missus (that's Aussie for wife or partner) we take your gun off you until your trial. If you have been convicted of a violent criminal offense, we won't let you have a gun again.. And 'we', that's most of Australia, like it like that.
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20-01-2016, 01:49
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#381
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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And 'we', that's most of Australia, like it like that.
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funny thing: here we are, a couple of Yanks who spend a lot of time in Oz, and we like it too!
Jim (and Ann too)
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Jim and Ann s/v Insatiable II, lying Port Cygnet Tasmania once again.
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20-01-2016, 01:52
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#382
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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Originally Posted by brianlara 3
Yes, and she's just having a ball winding you up.
Why in Gods name are you defending yourself/selves to this woman?
Respect for her abilities and age go out the door with the vitriol she spews forth.
Aren't you above it?
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OMG I bet you have no idea what's wrong with what you just posted
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20-01-2016, 01:53
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#383
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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Originally Posted by Jim Cate
funny thing: here we are, a couple of Yanks who spend a lot of time in Oz, and we like it too!
Jim (and Ann too)
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All yanks who like it, are very very welcome
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20-01-2016, 02:02
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#384
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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Originally Posted by latka
Please inform yourself before you post nonsense!
Both dictators rose to the top through political process while the world was watching, the US included.
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Once they came into power, they weren't going to let anyone vote them out of office, that's for sure. The only way for the citizens of those nations to depose those dictators would have been for the armed citizens to overthrow them. Can't do that without real weapons, huh? Pitchforks and plowshares aren't all that effective.
Some posters here seem to think that the US meddles in the business of too many nations, yet here it sounds like you're criticizing the US for "watching" while dictators took over.
Which is it? Are you trying to say that some foreign nation, like the US should have intervened?
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20-01-2016, 02:04
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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Originally Posted by Polux
Sometimes it is time to understand that, sometimes a lot of time. I would recommend to all a book : The crusades viewed by Arab eyes.
Amazon.com: The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Saqi Essentials) (9780805208986): Amin Maalouf: Books
No, it is not wrote by a Muslim fundamentalist but by a great writer, Amin Maalouf, a Libian that lives in France and that has wrote some of the most wonderful historic romances I ever read. This one is not a romance but more of a historian book, very well documented.
Don't believe in me, Amazon has 149 reviews with an average of 4 and a half stars out of 5. On such a controversial them is revealing of the quality of the work.
The book can be a shock for some and a bit the opposite of what happens today: then the ones with barbaric costumes and attitudes were not the the Arabs but the westerners.
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Thanks Polux, I just purchased this. Alternative history really interests me.
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20-01-2016, 02:06
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#386
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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Originally Posted by Rustic Charm
OMG did you really just repeat that american gun lobby, donald trump clap trap
Crime did NOT sky rocket at all, thats a rediculous lie. And we havnt had a mass shooting since.
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So you are telling me that everyone in that video, all fellow Australians, were lying?
Why would they lie about that? What would they gain?
I'm going to have to ask you to prove they're lying by posting actual crime stats, preferably from a government or law enforcement source.
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20-01-2016, 02:16
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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Originally Posted by boatman61
Great historical fiction.. followed all his adventures including India in the books and the excellent TV series..
Bussaco is just up the road.
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been a Sean Bean fan ever since that aired.
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20-01-2016, 02:22
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#388
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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Originally Posted by socaldmax
So you are telling me that everyone in that video, all fellow Australians, were lying?
Why would they lie about that? What would they gain?
I'm going to have to ask you to prove they're lying by posting actual crime stats, preferably from a government or law enforcement source.
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The Australian's commenting in that video are or were against the gun legislation and were spouting whatever their emotions would dictate at the time. But history has shown that the ceiling didn't fall in at all. Crime did not go skyrocketing, nor did firearm offences go through the roof. The rally in the video occurred in South Australia.
Why would people feel like that? Because people don't like loosing something they have, not even for the greater good. That's why they were upset. There are still plenty of gun nuts who still spout false stats and continue to say the sky is falling in.
What have they to gain? Well, like any lobbying, if they can succeed in their lobbying then could succeed in bringing back the free for all that we previously had.. pretty obvious really.
And as for doing the 'stats', NO, I'm not wasting my time on you Scaldmax. I commented to head off everyone else thinking the video you posted is somehow accurate. So they realise it's not an Australian video or accurate of current Australia. It's a video made by the American Gun Lobby. If you really want to know the 'truth', google it yourself as it's pretty easy to do and pretty easy to see the 'truth', if you really want it. With you I doubt it.
https://www.truthorfiction.com/austr...r-crime-rates/
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20-01-2016, 02:36
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#389
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Re: Guns on boats equals 5 years jail time
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Originally Posted by Rustic Charm
The Australian's commenting in that video are or were against the gun legislation and were spouting whatever their emotions would dictate at the time. But history has shown that the ceiling didn't fall in at all. Crime did not go skyrocketing, nor did firearm offences go through the roof. The rally in the video occurred in South Australia.
Why would people feel like that? Because people don't like loosing something they have, not even for the greater good. That's why they were upset. There are still plenty of gun nuts who still spout false stats and continue to say the sky is falling in.
What have they to gain? Well, like any lobbying, if they can succeed in their lobbying then could succeed in bringing back the free for all that we previously had.. pretty obvious really.
And as for doing the 'stats', NO, I'm not wasting my time on you Scaldmax. I commented to head off everyone else thinking the video you posted is somehow accurate. So they realise it's not an Australian video or accurate of current Australia. It's a video made by the American Gun Lobby. If you really want to know the 'truth', google it yourself as it's pretty easy to do and pretty easy to see the 'truth', if you really want it. With you I doubt it.
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Just as I suspected. Whatever you say, mate.
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