Australian gun laws back in the news in the U.S. following mass shooting in South Carolina

[CBHagman]

Last edited Thu Jul 2, 2015, 09:58 AM - Edit history (1)

I hesitated to post this because A) I'm not Australian, B) can't speak for news coverage across the United States, and C) realize that on DU guns can be an extremely incendiary topic.

All that said, the June 17th shooting of nine African-American Bible study members at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, has intensified the public discussion of gun laws, and the president himself actually referred to the Australian response to the Port Arthur massacre.

So I present without further comment two links, one from a blog at The Washington Post and the other to a YouTube video of a performance by comedian Jim Jefferies. The latter has been making the rounds on Facebook for quite some time.

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John Howard, who served as prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, is no one's idea of a left-wing politician. He was one of George W. Bush's closest allies, backing the Iraq war, and took a hard line domestically against increased immigration and union organizing.

But one of Howard's other lasting legacies is Australia's gun control regime. The law banned semi-automatic and automatic rifles and shotguns. It also instituted a mandatory buy-back program for newly banned weapons.

In the summer of 2012, after a gunman killed people at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., using several weapons including an assault rifle, Howard called on the U.S. to follow Australia's lead...

Comedian Jim Jefferies on the U.S. Constitution, guns, and a lot more:

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On edit: I had to change the link for the Jim Jefferies video, as the first was taken down. I also realize now that I misspelled his name.