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   Klaus  Schadenfreude  wrote in   
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   >>Klaus  Schadenfreude  wrote   
   >>in   
   news:inrvjk53b7ren0jptlv46hv1v4c615vdio@Is.Rudy.Canoza.dead.yet   
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   >>   
   >>> Australia's Machete Amnesty WORKS! None killed with machete   
   on Bondi   
   >>> Beach!   
   >>>   
   >>> Australian state rolls out machete ‘disposal bins’ ahead of   
   ban   
   >>>   
   >>> An Australian state has asked citizens to surrender   
   machetes at   
   >>> disposal bins ahead of a statewide ban on the weapons aimed   
   at   
   >>> combating knife crime.   
   >>>   
   >>> Australia’s state of Victoria on Thursday announced that   
   more than 40   
   >>> machete disposal bins will be available at police stations   
   across the   
   >>> state to allow citizens to safely get rid of the weapons   
   without a   
   >>> penalty before the Sept. 1 ban begins.   
   >>>   
   >>> “Owning, carrying, using, buying, or selling a machete   
   without a valid   
   >>> exemption or approval will be a criminal offense,” the   
   Victorian   
   >>> government said in a statement.   
   >>>   
   >>> The government is running a “Machete Amnesty” period from   
   Sept. 1 to   
   >>> Nov. 30 to support the safe disposal of machetes. Those who   
   do not   
   >>> surrender their machetes during the amnesty period may face   
   >>> imprisonment of up to two years or a fine of more than   
   $47,000 AUD   
   >>> ($31,725 US dollars).   
   >>   
   >>KKKlaun continues his goulish dance of glee that AU had a   
   notible mass   
   >>shooting after so many years. He celebrated not the hero that   
   disarmed   
   >>one of the attackers, rather he finds glee in the number of   
   dead and   
   >>wounder.   
   >   
   > Baxter is too fucking stupid to realize they had a mass   
   shooting in   
   > OCTOBER of this year.   
   >   
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   Prior to the passage of the NFA [National Firearms Agreement],   
   Australia had millions of guns. The NFA established a national   
   gun registry, a 28-day waiting period for buying a gun, strict   
   gun-licensing rules, and other provisions.¹ The result was that   
   gun-related murders declined and mass shootings more or less   
   disappeared. This account is from a 2016 assessment of the   
   NFA’s effects:   
      
       The risk of an Australian dying by gunshot remains less   
   than half what it was before Port Arthur. Research shows that   
   murderers did not move to other methods.   
      
       But although Australia hasn’t seen a public mass shooting   
   since 1996, we have no shortage of firearm-related crime. Gun   
   owners who know each other well – be they family members or   
   gang members – have always been the ones to kill each other   
   most frequently.   
      
       Then there’s the killer already in the room. About 80% of   
   gun deaths in Australia have nothing to do with crime. Instead,   
   they’re suicides and unintentional shootings.   
      
   So:   
      
       People in Australia still own guns.   
      
       The NFA did not stop all gun violence.   
      
       But it seriously curbed the kind of random gun violence   
   that is most preventable. And it all but eliminated mass   
   shootings.   
      
      
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