Australian Senator, David Leyonhjelm, says he knows how to stop horrific events like the murder of hostages at Martin Place.
He says Australians just need to carry more guns so we can properly defend ourselves.
Without them, he says, Australia is a “nation of victims”.
“What happened in that cafe would have been most unlikely to have occurred in Florida, Texas, or Vermont, or Alaska in America, or perhaps even Switzerland as well,” Senator Leyonhjelm told the ABC’s AM program. “Statistically speaking” in America, “one or two of the victims” who was involved in the hostage situation on Monday and Tuesday this week, would have had a concealed gun, he said.
To that, we have only one thing to say:
Sorry, Senator.
The U.S. has far more gun-related killings than any other developed country.
Per capita, that’s thirty times more than Australia.
Having American-style gun freedoms would not save more lives – it would end more.
End of story.
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Wow how intellectually dishonest of you. Overall violent crimes, and overall murder rates would be better.
Even better would be remove statistics from states in the US that have banned guns, because those places have the highest rates of murder compared to the states that allow gun carrying.
You are a victim of propaganda.
Maybe we should ban knives to after the 8 dead recently? Knives were deadlier than the Sydney siege. People own firearms for sport and for recreation including hunting. I don't believe in adopting American laws I just wish like a lot of other shooters not have a sport restricted further than it is by ban wagon individuals.