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  • I heard an interview on the radio earlier with a couple of Americans who were caught up in the shooting. After they had talked through their (terrible) experiences, the conversation turned to what could be done about it. They were both adamant that not that much could be done, and above all else that they valued their Second Amendment right to bear arms, so defend themselves against others, including those that use vehicles as weapons etc. It was incredible to hear it. It's just such a deeply entrenched belief.

  • And no amount of logic will convince them.

    Mention Australia confiscating all the guns and it's met with 'But we're America, we're different. We'll still murder people, it's just one of those things. If you take our guns we'll just kill people some other way, it's in our nature.'

  • There was someone on the today program this morning who said basically the same thing, Canada and Australia are different from America because they "talked" their way apart from the British empire, while the USA got away via a gun...

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