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Gun Control Reform Activism

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Fred Sanders

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Wed Mar 25, 2015, 07:46 PM Mar 2015

Video: Australian comedian tries to make sense of American gun laws - nailed it! | Daily Kos [View all]

"I'm going to say some things that are just facts. In Australia, we had guns. Right up until 1996. In 1996, Australia had the biggest massacre on earth. Still hasn't been beaten. Now, after that they banned guns. In the 10 years before Port Arthur, there was 10 massacres. Since the gun ban in 1996, there hasn't been a single massacre since. I don't know how or why this happened....maybe it was a coincidence, right?
Now, please understand, I understand that America and Australia are two vastly different cultures with different people, right? I get it. In Australia we had the biggest massacre on earth and the Australian government went–that's it! No more guns! And we all went–yeah, right then, that seems fair enough.

Now, in America you have the Sandy Hook massacre, which little, tiny children died and your government went....maybe we'll get rid of the big guns? And 50% of you went – FUCK YOU, DON'T TAKE MY GUNS!"



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