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Average Aussie here.. aside from on the hip of a police officer, the blokes moving money or on video, I haven’t even seen a gun in over 20 years.. good post for those who do hang around guns though
Unfortunately here in the US it’s increasingly pertinent information. It makes me want to pack up my family and leave to somewhere sane (er).
Australia is a great place, except that everything that isn't a gun is also trying to kill you.
New Zealand is like Aus's overly earnest cousin, but has better internet and not even on most maps.
Not true. In Australia, except for the sharks, spiders, snakes, bees, crocodiles, drop bears, mosquitoes, jellyfish, scorpions, ants, bats, fish, snails, dingoes, centipedes, wasps, octopuses, possums, ticks, sea snakes, emus and other birds, there's really not much trying to kill you.
/s (yes, the should not be necessary, but have you met people)
Don't forget that bush that makes you want to die.
Because guns are ubiquitous in the US, I taught our son, and his friends these rules as soon as they were able to understand and remember them, e.g. 10-13 years old. This is because should they encounter guns somewhere they need to immediately know if those firearms are being handled safely. And I told them to immediately leave the area to f they ever come across people handling guns in an unsafe manner.
Guns are still a big lifestyle thing here in Australia. It's just more balanced and reasonable than the USA.
My town has a shooting club, game reserves and is surrounded by farms. Seasonally we wake up to the sound of gunfire on the distance from hunters.
I've known professional people in the heart of our biggest cities who love nothing more than to head out bush and shoot feral animals when they can.
You won't stumble onto a firearm at your kids school for obvious reasons but there could be some under lock and key in a gun safe at your mates house. It's not unreasonable to know some basics.
That sounds exactly what it's like where I live, in the USA!!! Big country, many different laws. I live in New Jersey, which has some of the strictests gun laws in the country, and wouldn't you know it, we also have the least amount of gun violence in the country. Imagine that?
The US isn't a homogenized wild west, there is a lot of nuance, and I don't like where I live being lumped in with some of the less civilized places.
It's an extreme outlier, but you guys did just have a very well-publicized mass shooting there barely over a month ago (fuck man, it feels so much longer than that)
And to boot, a random civilian struggled with and took a gun from one of the attackers.
You probably won't find yourself in that kind of situation, and I certainly hope you never do. But these kinds of things can happen anywhere. I'm quite certain that Ahmed el-Ahmed didn't have "hold a gun" on his to-do list that day, but nonetheless it happened, however briefly.
And if you ever do find yourself in that kind of situation, it's best to know how not to hurt yourself or others with that gun you've unexpectedly come into possession of.
I live in TX. I see more guns going Home Depot than a military parade