Hermit wrote:Seth wrote:Good luck with your next terrorist attack. Just bend over and kiss your ass goodby.
The closest we got was in the early 70's, when someone blew up a rubbish bin outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel while several Heads of Commonwealth were in the hotel. It killed three people and injured several others. The Ananda Marga group was blamed, the Hare Krishnas and even the police. Three individuals were eventually convicted and gaoled as a result, but released on appeal. The only witness fingering them turned out to be a lying schizophrenic psychotic. At any rate, I can't see how concealed weapons could have protected us from this random act of lunacy.
But then there's the Port Arthur event, where it took more than eight fucking hours for armed police to respond, and during which time, from 2 pm to 9 pm the two utterly useless police officers in the area were hiding in a ditch, being driven back to cover every time they tried to move. The only person who even tried to do anything was a service station attendant who actually had a rifle and in theory could have stopped the massacre (far too late though, because the killer had already killed 32 people by then) but couldn't because he had to abide by the fuckwitted laws that prohibited him from keeping his rifle loaded: "The service station attendant told everyone to lie down and he locked the main doors. He grabbed his rifle, but by the time he could retrieve some ammunition and load his gun, Bryant was back in his car and gone."
Thirty five people killed (still a world record) and 23 injured by one man, over an eight-hour period (leaving out the 18 hour standoff to be charitable).
And only ONE of those poor sods even had a gun available and he wasn't able to act because fuckwits who think they know what they are talking about, but don't, forbade him from having his ammunition easily enough available to make him effective.
Poor bastards...killed by the stupidity of their own government, egged on by jackasses who don't understand the first thing about violent criminals or self-defense.
Now, just suppose that 50 percent (or 5 percent for that matter) of the people the killer encountered or who became aware of the situation (like the fucking POLICE OFFICERS) had been armed with concealed handguns, or better yet had Colt AR-15 SP-1 semi-automatic rifles and a few 30 round magazines full of ammunition situated for immediate use.
Do you think things might have turned out somewhat differently? I certainly do. After all, one Aussie tried, and was defeated by his own idiotic government. Imagine what a half-dozen competent citizens armed with the same rifle the killer had, and perhaps wearing body armor, could have done by way of distracting the killer from his spree.
You know Jack shit about Australian history, society or culture. Not that ignorance about anything has ever stopped you from pompously pontificating about anything that takes your fancy, Dunning–Kruger poster-boy.
Naughty boy. Shall I report you?
Anyway, evidently I know more about violent massacres in Australia than you do, so go fuck yourself.
I note that there's a list of 23 massacres in Australia since 1900
here, 19 of which have occurred since 1971, which indicates that it's not all that fucking peaceful down under.
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