Society New Zealand to Ban All Assault Rifles

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Splinty

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Hopefully this happens in the U.S. as well.

The goal of the NZ shooter is to get you to troll like this to result in a divide between the left and gun owners to sow division. He specifically chose his instruments to get this reaction.

Critically think a realistic change that will save lives (1994-2004 data already says this won't have a measurable change) and not result in the intended divide.
 

Disciplined Galt

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The goal of the NZ shooter is to get you to troll like this to result in a divide between the left and gun owners to sow division. He specifically chose his instruments to get this reaction.

Critically think a realistic change that will save lives (1994-2004 data already says this won't have a measurable change) and not result in the intended divide.
Canary in a coal mine.
 
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The goal of the NZ shooter is to get you to troll like this to result in a divide between the left and gun owners to sow division. He specifically chose his instruments to get this reaction.

Critically think a realistic change that will save lives (1994-2004 data already says this won't have a measurable change) and not result in the intended divide.
We need more than 10 years to really see the changes that will undoubtedly occur.
 

Jesus X

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good luck at trying to enforce this in this u.s. the most hilarious thing is that donald trump administration is the one passing the most gun laws right now and people still view him as progun.
 

RaginCajun

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An intresting take...

"Gun stores had revenue of about $11 billion, IBIS World said in its 2018 report. Gun and ammunition manufacturers had revenue of $17 billion, but the majority of that revenue comes from the defense side of the equation: arms sales to the U.S. and foreign governments.

These numbers just aren’t that large. A single company, Amazon, had revenue of $178 billion a year in 2017. The GDP of the United States is more than $19 trillion.

What is larger than the revenue in the gun business is the amount of money spent securing ourselves against America’s gun violence problem, though it’s harder to separate.

The security alarm business alone, for instance, brings in $25 billion a year. There are 1.1 million security guards employed in the United States, according to the Department of Labor. I’m guessing the business of a company like ALICE Training Institute, which provides civilian training on how to respond to active shooters, is probably booming right now. The Washington Post estimated schools are spending $2.7 billion a year on security measures. Government spending on domestic homeland security averaged $65 billion per year from 2002 to 2017."
America's Gun Business Is $28B. The Gun Violence Business Is Bigger.

My take on this bs...
Both sides of the gun control issue are making alot of money and why would the government want to ban guns when they can just pretend to be the only ones that can protect us from our own guns or another fake threat.
 

megatherium

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I guess this operation has to be considered an unqualified success then. This is a huge gain for the state. These poor immigrants were probably marked for death before their feet hit New Zealand soil. Such a tragedy.
 

Sheepdog

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The goal of the NZ shooter is to get you to troll like this to result in a divide between the left and gun owners to sow division. He specifically chose his instruments to get this reaction.

Critically think a realistic change that will save lives (1994-2004 data already says this won't have a measurable change) and not result in the intended divide.
It's a political impossibility for them not to do something like this, regardless of whether or not the shooter wants it. She's a left-wing politician facing the same situation (worse because of the hate-crime element) that resulted in a right-wing government in Australia implementing gun control. Doing nothing is not a political option.
 

Sheepdog

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He couldn't have made his intentions any clearer, yet the media just continue to push the "Trump supporting white supremacist" bullshit.
Well he was a white supremacist. Why did you add that part in quotations?