So who packs a weapon on board?

[sailingdog]

She's got a lot of very valid points.

Originally Posted by jerryrlitton

Suzanna Gratia-Hupp: What the Second Amendment is REALLY For

[jerryrlitton]

Luby's massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is where and why we have a CCL in TX.

[erps]

I guess you Americans do like ya guns. It is just funny to me cause here is Australia, we just don't care.

It was the Australian gun ban that got me to join the NRA. The video clips of Australian gun owners lamenting their loss was moving.

we basically petitioned our government to make sure that to own a gun here is damn hard if not impossible and by enlarge we are all kinda down with that....your average Joe doesn't want one and isn't interested.

when something isn't recognized as a right, a majority is free to take away from a minority.

[Capnblu]

Canada is scrapping their long gun registry, billions of dollars to register and push it through, and now they will no longer have the data for all the legitimate gun owners. I guess they can just look at the list of citizens whom didn't register to know who the real problems really are, or could be.

[jerryrlitton]

Originally Posted by chall03

This thread is still going?? Oh Dear.
Although I do love it when everyone gets all antzy.

Moonsailer comparing guns and beer is kinda drawing a fairly long bow don't you think??

I guess you Americans do like ya guns. It is just funny to me cause here is Australia, we just don't care.

It isn't actually that we are having our civil liberties violated over here, it isn't that we are being controlled and denied freedom by our government.........we basically petitioned our government to make sure that to own a gun here is damn hard if not impossible and by enlarge we are all kinda down with that....your average Joe doesn't want one and isn't interested.

Now I'm not saying this to inflame, or suggest that America's 2nd amendment is wrong, heaven forbid, I am just saying isn't it kinda interesting how cultural differences and very different perspectives change an issue??

I really cannot find a better definition of apathy.
Jerry

[sailstoo]

No. I don't keep a gun on my boat.

[erps]

we basically petitioned our government to make sure that to own a gun here is damn hard if not impossible and by enlarge we are all kinda down with that....your average Joe doesn't want one and isn't interested.

and once the average Joe doesn't care, it gets easier and easier

AUSTRALIA will join China in implementing mandatory censoring of the internet under plans put forward by the Federal Government.......The plan was first created as a way to combat child pornography and adult content, but could be extended to include controversial websites on euthanasia or anorexia.

Mandatory censorship on web | Herald Sun

wonder if the average Joe would care if the right to protest was taken away?

There is an autistic lady who does consultations for slaughter houses to design the assembly line from the cow's perspective so the cows don't get all upset as they move down the line to their demise. Wonder if she if she does any consulting work for governments?

BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon

[St Anna]

Posting ones thoughts is a very poor method of communicating.

To this average Joe, your comments are condescending and patronising. Are you asking for a response from the other side of the PAcific?

Do you feel we can comment on your way of life in a similar vein?

We have news bulletins which start
'Only in America...' and always are about the basic idiocy of your nation and its dumbing down of the population; or its incredible hypocrisy. Should we be so ignorant to judge you based on that? We or my circle dont!

You can do what you want in your backyard, shoot up coke, shoot up people who piss you off, after all, it's your god given right (so why punish the 'perp'?).

I dont care as long as you stop shoving it down my throat.

[erps]

St. Anna,

Was that directed at me?

[St Anna]

Yeah mate. We've talked in the past - stop bagging Ozzies when the thread is about carrying weapons on a yacht. I am off now - lets PM if we are going to have a stand up arguement.
regards