• dbilitated@aussie.zone
      6·
      7 months ago

      as an Australian, fuck I am so grateful crazy people can’t get guns in this country. imagine what this guy could have done with an automatic weapon.

    • Abbrahan@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 months ago

      “If only someone had a gun then they could have shot him”

      Forgetting that he would have then likely had a gun himself and we end up at the exact same situation in the US with Mass Shootings happening so regularly it doesn’t even make national news.

      • StaticFalconar@lemmy.world
        36·
        7 months ago

        Kinda goes to prove the point that all these killings aren’t a gun issue since mass killing is possible either way (its just easier with a gun). Taking guns away would be akin to placing society in a giant old school mental asylum where we are all in straight jackets. Sure we would all be killing each other a lot less when we are in straight jackets all day, but it doesn’t stop the violent thoughts and ideation.

        • Abbrahan@lemmy.world
          7·
          7 months ago

          Mass killings are always going to happen. The difference is that it’s a lot harder to kill a lot of people with a knife than it is with a automatic handgun or rifle. Effective range of a knife is maybe 1-2 metres. Effective range of a gun is hundreds of metres.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      7 months ago

      “See! Here’s one example of mass murder where it wasn’t a gun, therefore guns are okay and I’m gonna get my 4yo niece a mini machine gun, in pink.”