by juststarting » 05 Jan 2018, 11:37 pm
andreweden, I sense there's a lot of emotion and outrage. It's actually not a very healthy state to be in, as a firearms owner. I hope you are not cleaning any firearms and forget to lock them away in your emotional state (or when you've posted this). Thing about being emotional, outraged, angry is that when people are in this state, they get tunnel vision. You, right now, have tunnel vision.
That guy is what's called a statistical outlier. We have laws, we have requirements, we have enforcement. What else would you like to happen? Public flogging For example, if you read the latest, whatever it was, VIC firearms changes impact statement thing, you will notice that your anger is absolutely misdirected.
This is not a systemic issue - which is what you are trying to make it out to be. It's an outlier and accident. And by waving your flag around, sweeping all LAFOs under the same banner you are doing a lot of harm. Maybe that's your objective?
Yes, the person did bad. That person paid a very heavy price for his action and will continue to do so for the rest of his life (if you can call his emotional state a life after that), well beyond what our legal system can deliver in form of a punishment. That aside, he is an outlier. He doesn't count. A single instance. Maybe even a handful of instances. In a country of 24,000,000 double, triple, magnitude of 10 - still nothing! And we don't even have that, I can think of 4 in 2017 - and most of them were either illegal guns or genuine accidents, ricochet, etc.
So let me put this into perspective for you, I am going to go with 5 incidents. That's 0.02% per capita or - incidents at a rate of 0.0000002 per Australian population. You picking this up yet? We are not talking about it (see point a below), because it's completely irrelevant and our legal system has processes to deal with that.
Someone got injured, okay, that's bad, very bad, I am very empathetic and I really do feel for the family. It's horrible. However, lets put that into perspective, 0.02% per 100,000 people.
We are not talking about it, because:
(a) You're a spastic... You posted this at:
Fri Jan 05, 2018 3:46 pm;
while the story broke at: Jan 5, 2018 3:37PM.
Obviously you saw this, started menstruating and hoped to god you'd be the first one to post, with sensational title. That's cool, moving on...
(b) He is an outlier and only an absolute retard would use an outlier as bases for policy changes, which is what you are suggesting in a round about way. What would you like to happen, full gun ban? Followed by car ban and ultimately condom ban, because according to some - that's murder too, you know.
Get off your high-horse and let every one know how you reacted when you or a member of your family got a speeding ticket; or drove tired; or after drinking (because alcohol affects everyone differently), because, in 2016 there were 290 deaths on the roads.
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