So because some white-hating racist ghetto thug shoots Christopher Lane, an Australian citizen, the former prime minister seems entitled to lecture us. Compares to the wild west even if the wild west had a lot less crime..
“”You are 15 times more likely to be shot dead in the USA than you are here in Australia,” Tim Fischer, the former Australian official, said in an interview with CNN Wednesday. “There is murder mayhem on Main Street USA every day of the week, but you hide from that.”
Fischer slammed U.S. lawmakers for turning a blind eye to “sensible” gun control and lashed out at the National Rifle Association for using the Second Amendment as a shield against it.”
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/australia-usa-nra-oklahoma-murder-135410650.html
First of all, just because your nation was settled by convicts doesn’t mean we treat our people like convicts. I can understand that a nation the British used as a dumping ground for criminals might not be too sympathetic to individual rights. Your country’s gun ban and persecution of Free Speech shows just what kind of people you are
Secondly, the Australian gun ban did not decrease crimes. It wasn’t criminals who gave up their guns, but law-abiding people. All they achieved was this.
Murders committed with guns increased by 19%.
Home invasions increased by 21%.
Assaults committed with guns increased by 28%.
Armed robberies skyrocketed with an increase of 69%.
Source: http://www.worldpublicunion.org/2013-04-05-NEWS-australian-gun-ban-resulted-in-higher-crime-rates.html
So as far as I’m concerned, Tim Fisher can go to hell. You want to boycott us? Go ahead! Who needs you? Maybe if Lane had had a gun he would have been able to defend himself, maybe the thug that shot him would have thought twice about messing with him. But no, like you he was Australian, like you he understand what being a free man is all about, and unlike you, he got shot. Too bad it wasn’t you, Fisher. Lane may have been anti-gun but he minded his own business and behaved like a good tourist, you on the other hand are attacking my country based on one incident.