bladeracer wrote:So you actually agree with the authorities that people with lawful access to firearms are a threat to public safety?
I agree they absolutely can be a threat to public safety.
bladeracer wrote:You do understand that most, virtually all firearms violence is committed by people that have zero interest in legally acquiring firearms?
Laws "prevent" the law-abiding from committing crimes...that they're very unlikely to ever consider committing, they have no effect at all on criminals.
10 -20% of all homicides in Australia are committed by licenced firearms owners
In 16 mass shootings in Australia and New Zealand between 1987 and 2014, 135 people died. Most of the victims – 55% – were shot by previously law-abiding, licensed gun owners using legally held firearms.
bladeracer wrote:So you agree then that a law to prevent speeding doesn't prevent speeding. It is purely a retaliatory action against somebody that already committed the crime, thus it did not prevent it. It _might_ prevent the same person from committing the same crime again, despite more than a century of road law evidence that it won't.
No it serves both functions.
bladeracer wrote:You only lose the right to lawfully drive on our roads, thus it only applies to the law-abiding...
No it applies to everybody equally
bladeracer wrote:I have known people that have never owned a driver's licence because they have zero regard for the law requiring it. They get fined and banned from applying for a driver's licence...that they have no interest in ever applying for. I had an apprentice that was an alcoholic as a teen, he was banned for applying for his licence (when he was old enough to do so) for years due to his constantly riding his dirtbikes on the roads to go and get alcohol. Not the vaguest interest in getting a licence at all.
That's maybe the echo chamber I mentioned before..
bladeracer wrote:And you agree that our democratic government panders to where the power is, regardless of the people's wants, and use that as the reasoning as to why some of our laws have never been repealed despite people asking for it?
Yep, democracy at work, isn't a fine thing.