because I'm Australian :(
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Aussies are a strange batch in my opinion. First, I really have no sympathy for them. They physically turned in their guns! It's one thing for the government to make them illegal, it's quite another for the Aussie citizens themselves to be so obedient to tyranny that they would physically march down and hand them all in...and this is what they did...?
Second, I have had Aussies in America laugh at us Americans because of our strong stand with regard to our 2nd Amendment right to be armed! From all indications I have observed, Aussies don't understand history or the fundamental importance and meaning behind a society being armed to the teeth. So...of course they are now reaping the rewards of their ignorance...
There are WAY more based Aussies than you think. This country is going through it's own wake up call. We're just a little bit behind.
Rebuttal (on behalf of MalonLabe):
No, I've met at least a FEW Australians, and also I have no real understanding of how the gun thing went down, what the outcomes were, where gun culture exist in Australia today, what life in Australia is actually like, so I'm going to make my assessment of 21 million adults in a population where I have never lived based on my ignorance, narrow knowledge and inability to think outside my own context. Thank you very much!
(nice rebuttal, Malon)