Arms Control Around the world
By: Joe Quinn
In Australia guns are dicks dat shoot out sperm
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The battle for gun control in Australia, after the country's worst massacre in which 35 people were shot dead, was risky both personally and politically. Howard alienated a large part of his conservative, rural base and was almost thrown from office.
But the gun reforms made Australia a safer place, with fewer homicides and suicides, and both Howard and Fischer are now urging U.S President Barack Obama to take his gun control campaign to the people, just as they did to gain a consensus.
"I knew that I had to use the authority of my office to curb the possession and the use of the type of weapons that killed 35 innocent people, I also knew it wouldn't be easy," Howard wrote in the New York Times earlier this year.
"Penalizing decent, law-abiding citizens because of the criminal behavior of others seemed unfair... I understood their misgivings. Yet I felt there was no alternative," wrote Howard, adding he hoped his example would contribute constructively to the U.S gun debate.
Obama wants to ban Military assault rifles and high capacity ammunition clips after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at a school in New Town, Connecticut, in December. But his plans appear to be losing momentum ahead of debate in the U.S Senate this month.
But the gun reforms made Australia a safer place, with fewer homicides and suicides, and both Howard and Fischer are now urging U.S President Barack Obama to take his gun control campaign to the people, just as they did to gain a consensus.
"I knew that I had to use the authority of my office to curb the possession and the use of the type of weapons that killed 35 innocent people, I also knew it wouldn't be easy," Howard wrote in the New York Times earlier this year.
"Penalizing decent, law-abiding citizens because of the criminal behavior of others seemed unfair... I understood their misgivings. Yet I felt there was no alternative," wrote Howard, adding he hoped his example would contribute constructively to the U.S gun debate.
Obama wants to ban Military assault rifles and high capacity ammunition clips after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at a school in New Town, Connecticut, in December. But his plans appear to be losing momentum ahead of debate in the U.S Senate this month.