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Skriven 2009-02-28 12:12:09 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 28220 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
Ärende: 11yr old with a shotgun
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28 Feb 09 12:04, David Drummond wrote to Roy Witt:

 DD> Roy Witt -> David Drummond wrote:

 BF>>>    Put within quotes I get 1420 hits. And those I checked all
 BF>>> support your statement.

 RW>> There are 1660 such hits. And if you believe he checked more than
 RW>> the first one, I have a bridge in Sydney for sale.

 RW>> http://tinyurl.com/ddwdg

 RW>> "Last August, the rugged Aussie survivalist whose real life exploits
 RW>> inspired the "Crocodile Dundee" movies died in what then appeared to
 RW>> be a mysterious shootout with Australian police. A police sergeant
 RW>> was also killed in the incident. It was reported that Rodney William
 RW>> Ansell, the 44-year-old, blond haired Aussie, resembled uncannily
 RW>> Paul Hogan the actor who played his part in the movie and the
 RW>> sequel. Although Ansell was no angel and had had previous run-ins
 RW>> with police, he had been named 1988 Australian Northern Territory
 RW>> Man of the Year for inspiring the movie and putting "the Australian
 RW>> Outback on the map."

 RW>> What motivated this shooting? In 1996, Australia adopted draconian
 RW>> gun control laws banning certain guns (60 percent of all firearms),
 RW>> requiring registration of all firearms and licensing of all gun
 RW>> owners. "Crocodile Dundee" believed the police were coming to
 RW>> confiscate his unregistered firearms.

 DD> Then he was obviously a criminal - with no right to life, liberty or
 DD> happiness.

But you just advocated that criminals have a right to life...Which is it?

 RW>> In Australia today, police can enter your house and search for guns,
 RW>> copy the hard drive of your computer, seize records, and do it all
 RW>> without a search warrant.

 DD> Bull - they always take the whole computer with them.

I see that you don't deny that it can and does happen there, without a
search warrant. That can't happen here. US Constitution, Bill of
Rights, Article 4:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported
by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be
searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

One more freedom that Americans have that you don't.

 RW>> It's the law that police can go door to door searching for
 RW>> weapons that have not been surrendered in their much publicized gun
 RW>> buy back program. They have been using previous registration and
 RW>> firearm license lists to check for lapses and confiscate
 RW>> non-surrendered firearms."

 RW>> This reminds me of NAZI Germany...

 DD> One of the positive things about NAZI Germany then.

That's one of the stupidest things I've seen you write. What comes next is
more loss of freedom...ask any German who lived through the NAZI regime.

 DD> The majority of law abiding Australians applaud this legislation.

Sheep being led to slaughter are unaware of the nasty things just over the
horizon.

 DD> They've seen what unfettered gun ownership has done in USA and want
 DD> no part of that here.

Then they're more stupid than I thought. With billions of firearms in
private hands here, there are very few of them used in a manner that would
give you reason to worry.

When someone figures out how to curtail the criminal element anywhere
there are free people owning firearms, let us know.

Your anti-gun legislation has backfired and has given your criminals free
hand to do as they please, which is why your crime rate is far worse than
ours, percentage of population wise.

                R\%/itt


"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man
 who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson


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