Australia's Gun Solution

[PolitFreak]

"In its time of grief, Australia actually did something about weapons like the AR-15: It banned them." - Fareed Zakaria, 0:34-41, March 31, 2013.

What a concept!

[pipoman]

1. "The US has a Bill of Rights, Australia does not"..n/t

[AnotherMcIntosh]

2. According to Dick Cheney, the Constitution is just a piece of paper.

How many of our politicians agree with him?

[pipoman]

4. It doesn't matter how many believe that...short of a tyranical coup..n/t

[Loudly]

6. The U.S. also had a civil war which rendered the 2A obsolete.

If resisting tyranny through armed rebellion was its original purpose.

Now generally agreed that armed rebellion is never legitimate in this country.

Ipso facto.

[quietwrite]

8. Nor is it effective--

--only costly. In this country, non-violent resistance a la MLK, the women's rights movement, gay rights, etc. have all peacefully struck blows to oppression or marginalization that armed revolution rarely achieves.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. So according to Fareed Zakaria, millions of firearm-owning Democrats should give up their firearms?

[pipoman]

5. What I found interesting

is the admission, for the first time I can remember, that gun confiscation and gun control is a conservative position...except in the backward US..

[AnotherMcIntosh]

7. In Illinois, Gov Ryan (R) supported gun control before the 3rd-Wayers picked it up as their issue.

The then-State Senator Obama, instead of revealing his position as a 3rd Wayer at a session in which votes would be taken, left the State and went to Hawaii.

Now, the 3rd-Wayers are at the forefront pretending to be liberals and spokesmen the liberal position. It can be anticipated that the top-level Republicans will ultimately return to their origional anti-gun ownership position. Mayor Bloomberg of NY, a former Republican and now an Independent, has already done that.

It's a classic good-cop, bad-cop routine.