• freedickpics@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Australia is also overwhelmingly against affordable housing. Being in the majority doesn’t make it right

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      Gun regulations. Not protest regulations. As mind numbingly stupid we are as a nation. I don’t think most people really think the Akram’s were protestors.

      I will ask though where are the unions? You know the reason the Labor party exists in the first place. Surely their rights to protest are sacrosanct . If a Labor government can just opportunistically ban one kind of protest an LNP can easily just ban another.

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        If a Labor government can just opportunistically ban one kind of protest an LNP can easily just ban another.

        A lot of aged Qld ALP members were dismayed when Qld cracked down on protests under the previous state ALP government, saying the legislation nearly exacrly mirrored the Bjelke-Petersen Governments Union anti protest laws. Didn’t help though… (mostly climaye protests becase protesting the destruction of the enviorment and the likely collapse of civilisation is apparently not on)

        I notice the Greens supported the revised gun laws but were against more protest crack downs, so voters do have a choice.

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      7 days ago

      If we’re not going to listen to what the majority Australians think about gunrcontrol, what’s your alternative?

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        Recognise the mass shooting for the tragic but extremely rare occurrence that it is, address the intelligence failures that led to the shooters not being discovered earlier, and leave protestors and lawful gun owners alone

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          This is the most rational path forward.

          Unfortunately, the LNP will use the excuse to crack down on immigration, the ALP will use the excuse to crack down on protesters and the Greens will use the excuse to crack down on legitimate gun owners.

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            Yes to everything except the gun control.

            In what world does legitimate need for a gun include unlimited guns per owner? In what world does a hobby count as a legitimate use? (both things that lead the shooters to having the guns in the first place).

            Sorry gun hobbyists, get a new hobby. Like how is it a sane position that you can have a hobby that puts the community at risk. Do archery ffs. It’s way cooler and you can’t kill a bunch of people in rapid succession (I mean, unless you’re Legolas)

            Collecting every element as a hobby could be done responsibly, but we don’t allow that either, and for good reason. We, as a society, deem it an unacceptable risk.

            Unfortunately this tragedy will be co-opted for the other bad things you mentioned, but tightening our kinda loose gun laws is not one of them.

            Farmers, the military, specialised police and animal control need a certain amount of guns. The current laws do not achieve this.

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            This country has spent the last 25 years voting for policy designed to supercharge housing prices and sell out future generations. Even with our current crisis we still vote to drive prices up. No government with a plan to even stagnate housing costs has a hope in hell of being elected. Australians won’t have it. Besides younger and poorer demographics who walk through life knowing they’ll never own a house and that their peers want to keep it that way.

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              Yeah… Every measure to make houses more affordable has just been, we’ll give young home buyers more money. Which only increases house prices by whatever amount they decide on. Oh and how could I forget that it’s actually the fault of immigrants because Australia has never been able to affordably house an immigrant population.