Australian Gun Rights Advocate Tells Us What It's Like There | Active Self Protection Extra
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- This week I got to meet Steve Bowler, who works for Australia’s Shooters, Fishers, and Farmers Party. We got to talk about what gun laws and self-defense laws in Australia are really like, and BOY did our conversation open my eyes about the importance of the 2nd Amendment.
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thank you for taking the time to hear us aussies out. This is so important. Thank you.
rabiih tawbii Next video Jamaican gun laws.
I want to kill myself because of how obnoxious and negative the government is towards gun ‘ culture ‘.
Dude I hope you are well. I think the importance of gun ownership has been proven to the extreme in Australia lately but you of course knew that. I hope you govt stops it’s actions
I usually don't watch 30 min videos but I'm glad I watched this one. Take notes America, is this how you want to live? How many of our rights have to disappear before we are slaves? Answer, only one. Protect our Second Amendment.
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED !!!
Roosted Films from my cold dead hands
I agree. Otherwise we'll end up like Brazil where you're either a bad guy with a gun, an off duty cop with a gun, or a victim
I agree. Otherwise we'll end up like Brazil where you're either a bad guy with a gun, an off duty cop with a gun, or a victim
NC ASPer Amen. Amen.
liberals = commies
Every American gun owner needs to see this. We have younger, new gun owners here who weren't even born in '96 and who need to be cognizant of just how onerous these insane gun laws can be, and how quickly they can be put into effect if we don't stay vigilant.
I hope they do see it.
To anyone who knows the speed government _usually_ operates at, it's painfully obvious that they were just _waiting_ for an excuse to confiscate people's guns. 12 days? Are you fucking kidding me? It took eleven _months_ between the Dunblane massacre and the handgun ban in Britain! _Eighteen_ before .22 handguns were added to that!
Americans,Don't let them take your guns.Aussie
Get off my lawn, lol im one of those i own 2 guns and i was born march 1997
@@WJS774 Wow. There are practically no restrictions on rimfires in Canada. As long as you have your gun licence, you can possess and acquire any type of rimfire you want. Even a snub nose revolver in .22 Long.
Living in California, I can confirm that Australis is the progressives'/liberals'/left's dream in terms of the 2A. We're practically there already, with ammunition and firearms accessories (stocks, handguards, magazines, etc.) requiring background checks, and must be purchases in person at an FFL. Combined with the inexcusably high-taxes and high cost of living, I'm about ready to leave. I just need to convince my wife and find a better place to live.
Two more years and i'm out here off to Arizona Just another tax payer leaving California
Or you can just leave you wife there....just a suggestion... ;-)
CA is a lot cause. illegals own CA now
California (according to my Aussie mate in San FranCisco) has Groceries that are HALF what they cost here. Random example. A California Drivers Licence costs $49 for ten years (renewal fee) A South Australian Licence cost $106...for TWO years. (Aus Dollar prices both) $106=US$75 Mega Rip Off here!!
Everything in Oz expensive compared to USA
Shows you how quickly things can go bad once you start giving up your rights. I guess Steve doesn't expect the laws getting any better in the future. NO COMPROMISE
Yea man none of us expect them to get better but we really hope we get our rights back, probably not tho unfortunately
Wow. So depressing. If the liberals in the USA could waive a wand they would have it exactly as it is in Australia. We must constantly fight to make sure that never happens.
Amen.
It's really not that bad. You can still get guns in Australia. Just not a fucking full auto M16's now let's get real, if you need military weapons to defend yourself then don't you think its the people not the government.
It's not the liberals that's shooting at you to defend yourself. It's the people you defend, to own guns!that mostly you have to defend yourself from.
You will learn after time, without guns everyone turns into a pussy. You defend yourself because any pussy can pull a trigger in the heat of the moment.
Just admit America has so many guns you defend yourself against your neighbour. Not your government FOH
the point that seems to missed is that "firearm" crimes have not decreased down under with in the criminal world, just in the legal owner world
Yes the buy back funny how the local stores sold out of cheap motor oil and plumbing shops moving stocks of PVC pipes and caps.
Right?!
Only an estimated 30% of restricted firearms were handed in.
What do you mean by this? Pipe bombs, or people storing guns in oil in PVC pipe buried in the ground?
@@leereed219 you can make improvised shotguns with pipes and such
luty from the uk even made homemade submachine guns using stuff you can buy from Home Depot and wrote books on how to do it, many criminals in australia have used this book to make their own weapons. gun laws dont do shit
The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party DEFINITELY has my vote when I turn 18. Very happy to see people like them standing up for the responsible gun owners.
They didn't have an equivalent to the NRA or other groups that work to preserve the minimal rights gun owners had there to begin with. Thank God for the insight our founding fathers had when they wrote our bill of rights and constitution.
Mike Renfro Yeah the SSAA (Sporting Shooters Association of Australia) is no where as strong as your NRA and don’t ever let them take one inch or else you will end up like Australia where only Police, Millitary or criminals has guns.
Interestingly, we almost didn't have a 2nd amendment. At the time the bill of rights was written most thought it was unnecessary. Bearing arms was considered so mundane that it was not worth adding. Luckily for us a few insisted and argued successfully to have it added. Wish I could remember all the details, but I'm getting old and memories fade :). It's worth researching, which I guess I will have to put on my to do list to refresh my memory.
elk hunter We all owe a debt to the Anti-Federalists of the time. Their insistence on a bill of rights was prescient and wise.
Absolutely agree.
The UK literally founded the first NRA, didn't help us any.
As an Aussie I wish I could carry a gun for defence or at the VERY LEAST , inside my home for protection
And a certain party points to this and say "this is what we need for California/America!" NOT!!!
Re: the firearms training course, I was a weapons instructor in the Australian army - I was qualified to instruct on everything up to and including anti armour weapons, I had to sit the "blunt end into the shoulder, pointy end downrange" firearms safety course to get my ABH licence after I got out.
Ugh!
Yep, the point isn't to make anything safer, it is to make it more expensive and more of a hassle to get the licence so people don't bother. the 8 hr course involved firing a total of 15 rounds, 10x .22lr and 5 x 12 ga - the rest was a bureaucrats idea of how to do safety training without actually doing anything that involves handling a firearm (ie multiple choice questions largely relating to firearm classification and legislation, that in the real world, you'll google if you need to know it).
Once you've done the course, aquiring firearms is not that hard, 28 day waiting period for longarms and 6 months for your first handgun plus restrictions on what you can own, my advice - join a club and do it, but vote for people who support firearms regardless.
As an Australian I very much appreciate your service to our fantastic country. You hit the nail on the head when you said they just pile on all the crap to make it to hard to get and keep your licences and even if you jump through all the hoops if a meth head breaks into your house and you touch him he can turn around and do you for assault bloody wrong
I applied 150 days ago for a shooters licence and still waiting.
Awesome video! It’s great getting other people views on issues. I love these extra videos
For those who still live in free states, don't end up like the leftist dominated counties of California, where residents de-facto cannot carry a firearm at all on their person. I'm forced to rely on a Taser Pulse and/or pepper spray as a closest thing to a ranged force multiplier. We're not even allowed to have PepperBall guns or other pepper defense product using CO2 cartridges... I say again, do not end up like California, and continue fighting for your rights, while those in states that are not free such as California struggle to fight back the tyrannical leftism that infects modern politics.
AWDfreak get out now before they start restricting your movements and redistributing your wealth
This is so valuable! Great decision for this vid, John.
Wow, thanks for sharing. No compromise on this issue.
We have are own Australia here it's called California
Even as bad as CA is, they're NOTHING like Australia.
Come on now my friend remember you left me here in California and moved to Arizona but that's okay i will be there in two years also YEE HAW Vernon AZ here i come
Randy Dunning Commefornia😂😂
Yeah CA isn't even close to as bad. I mean in Australia airsoft guns are even banned. I've even heard rumors that certain nerf guns are import banned but I'm unsure if this is true.
There are thankfully countries that are still 'ok' to own firearms in outside of the US. In Europe Estonia, Czech Republic and Switzerland are such places. Here in Estonia you can carry a CCW (No round in chamber, unless it's a revolver, and no hollow points though), you can own as many guns as you like (though if you own over 9, the rules for storage are complicated), you don't have to modify guns in any way to make them legal here - and, if you serve in the local 'national guard' as a volunteer you are issued a FULLY automatic rifle to store at home. The weapon permit process is a bit harder than in the US, the initial permit requires a theory exam about the firearms act, and a weapons handling test + you need to bring clean papers from your shrink (just like driving school). After that for each weapon you buy you need fill out a form/motivate the need at your local police station before you can go an buy it.
CCW sounds like a bad idea if you aren't allowed hollow points ammunition. Are there legal expanding ammunition options like Federal Guard Dog?
The law only says "pistol or revolver cartridges with a hollow-pointed bullet". They do sell softpoints for hunting here, so expanding self defense bullets should theoretically not be an issue - but nobody sells them. The closest to a self defense round I've been able to find in 9x19 is Fiocchi Black Mamba Top Defense and Sellier&Bellot Softpoints
No round in chamber? That's the ideal way to carry so that's a very stupid law. I guess I'd have to carry a revolver.
Estonia is a beautiful place, I was there earlier this year and I couldn't believe how good the firearms laws were. As an Australian I was thoroughly impressed that you guys have kept your right to carry. However as I couldn't speak the language, I didn't get much of an idea what the general attitude was like towards firearms. Are Estonians quite open to firearms or is it just a select few licensed shooters who appreciate being able to own them?
Two words...Incomprehensible... Infuriating! 😠😠😠
Don't worry. I went to jail in Maximum Security for 1 1/2 weeks for Not wearing a Bicycle Helmet. Very, Very un-free Country.
Sad to say.
Poor Australia. They have a right gun/rifle history and amazing markmen of heroic stature, but they've given it all away.
Thank goodness “Crocodile Dundee II” was filmed before 1996.
I feel for you guys in Australia. It’s terrible that your government (dictators?) have such a hold on your freedom. I hope you can overcome them and get your government back from the lefties.
If and when you do, I suggest you get one of them there bill of rights like we have here. We are always close to losing ours and it’s a never ending battle.
I’m thinking of getting into pistol shooting, it would be easier for me to get a green card and move to the USA than start shooting here locally.
It can be done mate. Look into it.
In Australia everyone has to vote. Even the mentally disabled?
seansimmons73 " if voting changed anthing they would probably made it illegal.". VOTING IT ACT OF CHOOSING A SLAVE MASTER A OR B DOES NOT MAKE YOU ANYMORE FREE.
Wow, that sounds awful. I knew it was bad down under, but that actually sounds worse than here in Britain. Limits on how many guns you can own? Right, because a guy with a dozen guns is _obviously_ so much more dangerous than a guy who only owns a couple. Can't _possibly_ shoot up a theatre or whatever with only one gun.
better go turn in your kitchen knives bro!
They did try to go after those a few years ago, insane as it sounds. Obviously the outcry at that was nearly universal, I have no idea why they thought they could get away with it.
Thirty Years ago, virtually Australian in My Street knew that I Owned Firearms, because they frequently saw Me carrying Guns to and from My Car parked on the Street.
Today absolutely no Australian on My Street knows that I Own a Gun, because all Firearm transfers to and from My Car, happen in My Rear Garden (behind 3 Sets of Closed Gates).
In Australia it is illegal to carry anything for the purpose of self defence. So if you "admit" to carying a heavy walking stick for self defence you have confessed to carrying an illegal weapon...
Terrible!!
The Aussie goverment should do a Gun Return
Please don't forget...Australia doesn't have a Second Amendment. Also, don't forget that the US Supreme Court made a landmark decision in 2008 recognizing the 2nd as a citizen's individual right.
True.
An armed citizenry is analogues to having a spare tire in your trunk, a first aid kit in your glove box, backing up your computer files, storm preparedness, I could go on and on. In short, it is unwise and irresponsible not to have a backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan. We seem to forget or fail to recognize just how fragile our civil institutions really are. What are you going to do when the wolf is at your door and the woodsman is away?
There is no middle ground.
Does the Australian military even use guns? Geez
Daniel Rainey Nerf guns... totally using nerf guns...
Does the military and police in CA and MA use guns? _No_ country restricts their _soldiers_ from using guns, just the peasants.
Daniel Rainey Line infantry weapons training of the Royal Australian Regiment (about 3,000 regulars of the Australian Army’s Infantry Corps) with the Steyr AUG Australian Lithgow Arms EF88/ F90 Atrax improved variant. Apart from one obvious amateur mistake from an instructor with the BHP, and the annoying music, enjoy. ua-cam.com/video/n5n-odaQu0M/v-deo.html
Daniel Rainey You’ll like this one: ua-cam.com/video/iBcNz2UT--U/v-deo.html
Both our military and police all use firearms
...and I'm switching my voter registration to INDEPENDENT. Tired of seeing RINOs stomping over me.
Thanks to Steve for coming all this way to impart some of his experience, and to John for hosting! This was a great interview, and one I wish we could have aired in the mainstream channels. Now John, hope you took Steve out to enjoy some of the freedom we have ;)
Great vid as always!
Thanks!
Love hearing an Australian's perspective
Check his facts though ~ Right!? I hear a lot of... nonsense, perhaps!? Trump chat is not applicable here mate... ZZZzzz...
So much room for bastards, to be bastards... Folk heros was then, common criminals is now... Armed against arseholes, can lengthen - you & family & neighbours lives! This bloke is not exactly a wealth of actual legitimate knowledge, so pinches of salt... Koalas versus Sloths who would eventually dominate? Ease up selectors - peace!
Licensing, legislation, and registration ALWAYS leads to confiscation. Once you give it up your rights you will not easily get them back God Bless the Australians yearning for freedom.
Everyone mentions California, but nobody mentions Hawaii. It's worse than California there.
Never forget, Our 2nd amendment is here to protect our 1st!!! Do not consent, do not comply, hold the line! Freedom is worth fighting for! 🙏👍💪🇺🇸
"The A license covers air guns..." That's ridiculous as those guns are accurate to about 10 yards, maybe 20.
Listening to Mr. Bowler describe how their rights were gradually chipped away, I was reminded of Virginia delegate Nick Freitas' outstanding speech on the floor of the house of delegates -- the part about an "honest conversation" and "reasonable restrictions," where he said "Quite frankly, I don't think any of us on this side of the aisle believe you when you say that's all you want to do," and then he describes banning bump stocks, and then large-capacity magazines, and then "assault weapons," and then all semi-autos, etc. all step by step, "because when the policies fail to produce the results you are promising to your constituents, you'll be back with more reasons why we've got to infringe on second amendment rights." That's it exactly.
It puts us between a rock and a hard place. The gun banners love to paint us as intransigent, unwilling to compromise on even the most reasonable, common-sense restrictions, and being unwilling to go along with even their most limited proposals enables them to portray us in that light. But as they've shown time and again, we CAN'T compromise with them even on those things, because always keep the pressure on, and always look to go from that legislative victory to the next, more restrictive step. It's entirely a one way street.
And additionally... I can't agree with the statement, support the candidate who supports your rights regardless of party. I wish I could, but I simply can't. You simply CAN'T trust the democrats to protect your 2nd amendment rights. You just can't, no matter what they say, not when the party as a whole is hostile to the 2nd amendment, which it indisputably is these days. First off, the pressure from the house and senate majority leaders and majority whips to fall in line and vote with the party as a whole is IMMENSE, and few legislators will buck that all the time, or even very often. Secondly, politicians can almost always be counted on to put their own career ambitions first, and that will mean embracing the party platform to rise within the party -- and the democratic party platform these days is heavy on gun control. All you need do is look at the career trajectory of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. When she was a congresswoman representing New York’s largely rural 20th district, she had an A rating from the NRA, and used to brag about going out to bag the family turkey for Thanksgiving. When she became the junior senator from New York, she veered hard left on every single issue, including firearms, and embraced current democrat party orthodoxy. Within a year as a senator, she got her A rating from the NRA changed to F, and these days says she “couldn’t have been more wrong” about her previous support for gun rights. She's been talked about as a potential presidential candidate, and to get the support needed within the democratic party for a run these days, it means going hard left to make the democrat base happy. If firearms owners think they won't be instantly thrown to the wolves by these self-serving democratic politicians, they are dreaming. Do not trust these people. Republicans may be wishy washy on second amendment rights, but there are enough politicians in the GOP who support it that it still gets some substantial protection in that party. The democratic party, on the other hand, is so eaten up with politicians downright hostile to the 2nd amendment (and others like Gillibrand whose support was never real, but simply a show for a rural constituency that she cast aside without a second thought as soon as her constituency widened), that the few of them left who sincerely support the 2nd amendment are simply overwhelmed, and are too few, and too powerless to resist the anti-gun tide surging there.
Amen.
Our Bill of Rights, as they were meant, are not rights granted to citizens by a government, but are inalienable rights bestowed upon every Man, Woman, and Child at birth by God, and as such it should not ONLY be our mission as Americans to assure these Bill of Rights are not infringed on here in America, but these rights are owed to ALL of humanity the world over.
"Gun laws only affect the law abiding." Correct. Also, laws do not prevent crime at all: they define them and outline punishments for them. That is literally all that a law does. It's up to the police to enforce them. Even attorneys cannot prosecute offenders if they are not forcefully brought in by the police.
Vote for Glen Youngkin if you value your children’s future. “Terry” is dangerous and corrupt.
Buybacks. “I lost my guns at the bottom of a billabong.”
What about folding knives?
After watching this video, Aussieland just looks like an Anglo version of Venezuela.
They banned airsoft? What the fuck? There's stupid, and then there's Australian law.
I hate Australian gun laws and everyone down in this comment section and this video has great points of opinion and I want the second amendment rights to be in our country Australia because the Anti everything people just want to take everyone else’s rights and freedom away I don’t want to go and sign up to vote because of my rights I have been living in Australia for almost 20 years now and I am sick of our government and sick of the anti everything propaganda around the world.
5:20 "conveniently forgetting New Zealand who also hasn't had a massacre without those strong gun laws"
Then the Christchurch massacre occurs less than a year later.
Be very grateful for the Founding Fathers of America, they knew what they were doing.
As a Australian citizen myself, i would agree it goes a bit far when a toy that does no actual harm is considered a firearm. It has gone too far but real guns being as locked down as they are, i am thankful for
I feel so sorry for all the law biding people in Australia and around the world that have to put up with this Bull Shit..
Fantastic conversation. Thank you for presenting the perspective of a highly-informed (about America gun laws, etc) Aussie (who has lost most of his gun rights).
My pleasure!
I never say “I’m a republican”
I say “I vote Republican”
Thank GOD for are AMENDMENTS!!!
Home invasions are on the rise in Australia and people are pretty much defenseless legally.
You should get lapel mics, or get two shotgun mics. It is hard to understand due to the echoes.
We still got plenty of guns over here don't worry bout that
many years ago my brother had a friend over from the UK & he almost lost his mind seeing me carrying a glock 23 holstered on a belt just shows how different countries are.
Very true!
Well unfortunately mate, just a year later nz did have one
The only folks who can own semi-auto (with exceptions) are farmers and people who make a living with a gun..."professional shooters". Has it worked? Yes but wonder how many victims were murdered who could have defended themselves with a firearm.
Wow John, some really eye opening information shared there.
Yes, it is different here in America but, we do need to fight harder
and be more aware of our rights.
"Shall not be infringed....." is very clear.
I very much appreciate the videos you post and the information
that you share AND all the work you do, THANK YOU!
Be safe.
Randy
There should be no mail in voting. If you can't occasionally wait in a line to vote, you should work on that. I would rather wait in line and have a one-day vote than have the election stolen with mail in ballots.
The problem with it is that it’s classist, honestly. Assuming people can take the time off work unpaid, and travel to the polling place, and afford that tends to exclude the poor.
@@ASPextraHey, I enjoyed your podcast with the Houston cop. I'm from El Cajon, Anyways, (with all due respect) If they are poor, they probably don't have jobs. If they can't drag their butt off the couch, they probably shouldn't vote. Voting is for the people who are involved enough to educate themselves and make it a priority, I think. I know doing trade shows from 8am to 5pm, I would go early and be first one at the polling place at 7am. Some folks voted during lunch break and others after work, even if we worked till 7. The polls close at 8 or 9 in vegas. If mail in wasn't such an opening for fraud, okay maybe... But unpunished fraud ruins the whole process. Hey man, we were lucky to have grown up in San Diego. Diggin' your channel and podcast. I'm learning a lot and I appreciate it. A lot. Peace
Very prophetic several years later.
the new zealand statement didn’t age well…
Please share this video now.
The NFA of 1934 originally included pistols and handguns as well. Imagine if the original had passed...
I wonder if the current “common sense” bills in Congress would pass if one amendment could be added... NEVER again can we bring up any firearms bills! It would be a fun proposal to bring forth just to show their end game... complete abolishment of firearms.
Not fair for Aussies ...
there's an important point i would like to bring up. the f90 atrax that completely looks like an "assault rifle" by lithgow firearms is being made by australia for export for military and civilian markets. in a nutshell it's a updated AUG Oz Steyr hell it's even black. now i'm sure we australians can't own them according to our laws. in this case i'm a firm believer that the government should put its values where its mouth is and ban production and export of these weapons. if we can't own one neither should anyone else, it's contradictory and it's bullshit.
This is so true as an Australian the genuine reason to own a firearm can not be for self defence which is disgraceful. If was to shoot a home invader that was high on drugs and that had no care of what or who he/she hurts I would be jailed for years for trying to protect my family in our home. It is bullshit!! And it makes me so angry
All I hope is America doesn’t follow in our footsteps with this bullshit!! It’s a basic human right defending your family with what ever force deemed necessary
The one concession I would be willing to make to the gun control crowd is one time mandatory gun safety training prior to buying a person's first firearm. The caveat would be that every high school student would have to take the class. If they didn't plan on owning or using firearms they wouldn't have to pass the class (short seminar, really) they could sleep through it or use it as a study hall but THEY WOULD BE IN THE ROOM AND HEAR THE MATERIAL AND YOU CAN'T UN-RING A BELL.
I’m not a fan.
@@ASPextra I know my/our right to bear firearms isn't conditional so the mandatory part of this isn't something I actually support but the safety training is so important, I'd really like to see everyone get that training. Make it part of the culture? Not legally mandated but something everyone does just because that's what you do? Wouldn't have to be anything more than 20-30 minutes, maybe even just a video covering the most basic aspects of handling firearms correctly, cover the national accidental discharge stats, how to avoid the most common accidents.
I’m down with making part of the Common Core curriculum for high school throughout the land. That part wouldn’t bother me. But making it mandatory for gun ownership is just a federal gun licensing scheme and no bueno.
@@ASPextra You're right, anything mandatory would be just the tip of the wedge and that's a no go but I do think some kind of wide spread gun safety/gun education dispersment to young people would go a long way toward dispelling the wide spread fear of guns that is so prevalent in the non-gun part of the population. A deliberate effort to shine some light back in the corners where it would never get otherwise. It's those dark corners of non-familiarity with guns where anti-gun sentiment really festers and breeds rapidly. People who are at least somewhat familiar with guns might not care to own or shoot them but they aren't afraid of them, either.
Canada right now maybe in the process of banning airsoft we should work as hard as we can to make sure that does not happen here in America cuz once they come for replicas they're come for the real deal and as an avid airsoft player and I'm worried what that means for the future for the sport in America
I hear from the Aussie how American liberals are, they are the same thing. We need to really work hard to keep liberals from taking office.
I actually had a foam set of toy nunchucks that I ordered from China TMNT toy and customs seazed it through the postal service.
SERIOUSLY?
Active Self Protection Extra yep seriously, got a letter from customs saying the $3 Chinese plastic and foam nunchucks were a prohibited weapon but I had the option of hiring a solicitor if I wanted to fight it. But that's Australia for you
@@willows801 Yet if you buy two wooden sticks, a length of chain, and a couple of screws and leave them assembled. They won't even question it. We are governed by morons here.
John love the discussion. Please consider investing in separate mics and a desk to pick up the audio better. When its just you its fine, but Mr. Bowler's volume was a little low. As always thanks for your content.
He speaks very quietly.
Don't be cheap John. haha
Ismael Soto hahahahahahaha
Parliament house is one big circus.
The joint needs to be renamed to Puzzle House Canberra.
Great interview with much needed info for in the USA. Thanks👋🏻
Australia. Blame Trump
No one said that.
I really hope we get our gun rights back
A member of the RCMP once told me (only _half_ jokingly) that "If you have to shoot, make sure the threat is _all the way_ inside your house! Do not shoot if he's on your porch. Also, make sure he's armed before you shoot..."
In other words, clearly identify the threat before resorting to deadly force!
Everything Massad Ayoob said in his lecture is equally applicable in Canada.
Why would he say that half jokingly?
"Just because you don't take interest in politics doesn't mean politics don't take interest in you." Love it!
And we all know how the kids of strict parents behave.
Camera out of focus on you but not the guest, spoilt the appearance but not content of course.
Out of curiosity John, can a non resident purchase and carry firearms in most states of the USA when visiting?
Not generally. The laws here are VERY weird because the State Department is involved.
Powerful reminder!
same in the UK
That sucks I fell sorry for you guys..
@@clachapelle yes its terrible here i think i will move to the US
What can we do to push back?
I'm Australian. This guy's observations of Australia's politics, history and media is 100% correct.
The trouble for this Australian politician is, we Australians know that it is difficult for the bad guys to get guns in Australia, and if we're mugged or assaulted then it's highly unlikely that the bad guy will have a gun. Not impossible, but very unlikely.
We know that other weapons can be deadly too, but guns tend to be much more effective at killing people than anything else. This channel supports that view time and time again.
So Australians generally support any limits on guns in Australia, because the fewer guns there are in this island, then it will remain very difficult for the bad guys to get them. Most of us aren't interested in having guns so we'd rather err on the side of having less guns available to the bad guys than allowing the few good people who want guns to be able to enjoy all the freedoms they want.
Rightly or wrongly, that's how most Australians see it. Yes we're fueled by incorrect claims in the mass media and yes our opinions on guns is mostly informed by Hollywood movies. But still we know that guns are more effective at killing people than just about anything else, and that it is quite difficult for bad guys to get guns in Australia. Generally, we want to keep it that way.
That's not to say anything about the US or how people from the US should approach firearm ownership. The cultures, histories, local economies and geographic situations are all completely different between the US and Australia, and so gun laws that may be applicable in the US may be inappropriate for Australia and vice versa.
My opinion is that your assertion of "the few good people" is wildly off.
@@ASPextra Disagree all you want from where you are in the USA, but it is a fact that very few people own a gun or even want to own a gun here. The overwhelming majority of Australians, even those in conservative rural areas like where I live, have never even used one their whole lives.
@@simon_patterson you do realise that we have more guns in Australia registered then ever in this country's history? We have younger boys and girls, older men and women, hunting, recreational, target, competition etc etc and its only growing larger, so your wrong, firearms per xx people in Australia is more then most country's out there just so you know
@@simon_patterson 2016 Australia is 14.5 when it comes to guns per 100 capita
CrimTrac says they have over 4.3 million registers firearms in Australia which I think is bullshit
As far as states are concerned, they estimated 2.7 million registered firearms
Just last financial year, we imported 44,000 rifles, 12,000 shotguns and 20,000 handguns, in the last 15 years we have imported well over 700,000 firearms, with an estimated of 43,000 new shooters each year
@@johnnyasus86 thanks for the stats, that is very interesting. I'm particularly interested in the number of people who own firearms in Australia - an additional 43,000 gun owners per year is a surprising stat to me. Can you link me to your source(s), please? Thanks.
"Lurch to the left". . . ahahahaha yeah right mate!
Need a sock full of rocks or coins.
We are on our way there. Sadly.
My Lord... This is insane.
Ain't that the truth.
Great info. Thanks.
Glad to help!
And now we have the zombie knife prohibition laws.Because they infer violence towards a fictional character
they have a reason for the zombie knife laws tho
our youth were stabbing each other almost every day with them, even worse in the uk where so many stabbings done with zombie knifes and Rambo knives etc
@@genericusername4206 Sorry I didn't realise you could only stab someone if your knife has green writing on it
@@bradbaker9269 wait did the ban only affect zombie knives that are branded to look like zombie knives? if so then yeah it’s pretty stupid
@@genericusername4206 That's right the actual legislation says .Any knife that infers violence towards a fictional character .Meaning if it has characters or writing to that effect zonbie slayer green blood splatter etc Then it is a prohibited weapon. A zombie knife as such does not refer to any particular shape or style
@@bradbaker9269 okay then it’s a dumb law
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Gotta work with what I have dude.
We haven’t had a mass shooting since 1996. I would support more gun ownership that goes to the right hands and not the wrong hands which I fear will end up happening.
Ahem: www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/australia/australia-darwin-gun-attack-intl/index.html
There's gun (and other) violence being committed nearly every week in Melbourne, typically by Sudanese immigrant gangs and Middle Easterners. Here's a surprisingly honest article from a left-wing rag (The Age), which admits that the 1996 gun restrictions did absolutely nothing. www.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/gun-city/day1.html