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Simple confusion.
Nobody in Australia can understand why the US has such a fetish for its insane absence of gun control policy. Every time one of these shootings happens, people here will turn to each other and say "after Port Arthur in 1996, we implemented stricter gun control laws. Guess what happened? No more mass shootings."
Same in New Zealand, just replace Port Arthur 1996 with Aramoana 1990.
America, wake the fuck up to yourselves. If you want each household to have enough weaponry to arm a small country, then be honest about the human cost. If you think that human cost is too high a price to pay - and you fucking should think that - then get rid of the goddamn guns. It's not as if they're a necessity to life. Your life will be just as rich and fulfilling if you can't buy guns in every second shop, I promise.
There may be a fetish for an absence of gun control policy among a large minority here, but that's not the reason our laws don't change. The reason our laws don't change is because too many of our politicians are bought off by the NRA and the gun manufacturing/selling industry it works for. Mandatory background checks before gun purchases are supported by something like 90% of the population here, but that doesn't mean anything to a congress with many politicians who are in the NRA's pockets. This is really just one more case of a private industry paying off politicians to let them do what they want. Except it's worse in this case because that private industry is literally willing to let people get killed in order to protect its profits.
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