Why? Cars are incredibly dangerous devices, even though modern cars are designed to 'feel" safe. Hell you even need a licence to use one. Many people that drive have no idea how much damage they are capable of behind the wheel and are totally complacent.

If they didn't have such incredible utility, they would be far more restricted.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And a gun is a weapon designed explicitly to kill things.

They are not the same and you're a piece of utter shit if you try and take a four year olds death and hurr hurr gun laws baaad on It.

[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I actually think we have excellent gun laws and I expect the net effect of the upcoming changes will largely be positive as well.

However strongly disagree that just because the designer of the car wasn't thinking it would be used to kill things, makes the car less dangerous than it is. I honestly wish people treated cars with a much closer attitude to firearms, a machine with potential to do incredible damage and harm if used incorrectly.

I do wonder what the outcome would have been if the Bondi terrorists had used cars instead of firearms. Probably a lot of sadness, a few bollards and a political, "guess there is nothing we can do about this".

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What are you trying to achieve here.

What are you devils advocating for.

[–] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It seems to me they are saying that the community massively under-appreicates how much death and danger we accept from the use of cars.

And that our cities are STILL being designed for cars, despite decades of evidence that it's a dumb idea (with some decent urban planning sprinkled in from time to time).

Australia has massive car-brain.

This death was assisted by that, because we don't design our cities properly.

Cars kill. And people need to wake up to that, especially when they're behind the wheel, which many have no choice but to do because of the design of our cities.

Edit: also this particular commenter (not the other stupid pro-gun idiots) does not seem to be advocating for guns.

If I had my way, we'd restrict guns even more than the new laws have.

Recreation is not a legitimate use for a gun.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

We need fo start banning auto transmissions.

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

Can we do a car buy back to remove these horrors from our communities?