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NRA doesn't like Australia's Gun Stats

Ranb said:
You mean drugs like caffeine, alcohol and nicotine?

I believe that lack of legislation even without constitutional or other legal protection means I have a right to do anything not prohibited by law.

Ranb
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Indeed, possession and use of LSD was legal until laws were passed to criminalize LSD.
 
Caveat: I've hardly read any of this thread.

How do the US gun violence per capita statistics compare with the Australian gun violence per capita statistics?

It seems like a comparison might be useful, given the similarities between the US and Australia.

I looked around a bit trying to find an answer to my question without a great deal of success but I did find a statistic that said that US gun death rate was 10.2 per hundred thousand and the UK death rate was .25 per hundred thousand. But the US is a country of immigrant hot heads whereas the UK is a country of calm people that are happy where they were born, so maybe that's a more important factor than gun ownership. So a comparison with Australia might control for that factor since I believe that Australia consists of the descendants of criminals from England and the indigenous people.
 
davefoc said:
I believe that Australia consists of the descendants of criminals from England and the indigenous people.
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That statement is so ignorant that the rest of your post doesn't warrant a response.

Bloody hell, it's easy to look up. Australia is one of the world's most multi-cultural countries.
 
But i will add a few facts countering the ridiculous statement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Australia

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics[15] in mid-2010 5,993,945 of the Australian resident population were born outside Australia, representing 26.8% of the total Australian resident population.
Australia and Switzerland, with about a quarter of their population born outside the country, are the two countries with the highest proportion of immigrants in the world
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davefoc said:
Caveat: I've hardly read any of this thread.

How do the US gun violence per capita statistics compare with the Australian gun violence per capita statistics?

It seems like a comparison might be useful, given the similarities between the US and Australia.

I looked around a bit trying to find an answer to my question without a great deal of success but I did find a statistic that said that US gun death rate was 10.2 per hundred thousand and the UK death rate was .25 per hundred thousand. But the US is a country of immigrant hot heads whereas the UK is a country of calm people that are happy where they were born, so maybe that's a more important factor than gun ownership. So a comparison with Australia might control for that factor since I believe that Australia consists of the descendants of criminals from England and the indigenous people.
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13% of the U.K. population was born overseas.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20677515

11.8% of the U.S. population was born overseas.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/censusstatistic/a/foreignborn.htm

Seems like the U.K. is the immigrant nation :p

The U.K. has much higher levels of violence than the U.S. which seems to show that the U.K. is far from being peaceful but because of a lack of access to firearms, violent confrontations rarely escalate beyond fisticuffs.
 
lionking said:
That statement is so ignorant that the rest of your post doesn't warrant a response.

Bloody hell, it's easy to look up. Australia is one of the world's most multi-cultural countries.
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Sorry, it was my little attempt at humor. The story is told in just about every Australian documentary so I just thought I'd go with the flow of a story that is undoubtedly blown way out of proportion.
 
davefoc said:
Sorry, it was my little attempt at humor. The story is told in just about every Australian documentary so I just thought I'd go with the flow of a story that is undoubtedly blown way out of proportion.
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Fair enough. Apologies. Smilies are there for a reason.

I replied because ten times more people read these threads than respond, and I didn't want your post to be thought of as truthful.
 
lionking said:
That statement is so ignorant that the rest of your post doesn't warrant a response.

Bloody hell, it's easy to look up. Australia is one of the world's most multi-cultural countries.
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It wasn't even right in the early years, in addition to the English we also got Scots, Welsh and of course Irish revolutionaries.
 
The U.S. only has a higher murder rate because we express our feelings. Everyone else bottles it in, and that's not healthy.
 
Cain said:
The U.S. only has a higher murder rate because we express our feelings. Everyone else bottles it in, and that's not healthy.
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On the other hand, it's hard to think of something less healthy than murder.
 
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