This is what a rational reaction looks like.

[Marchimedes]

We live in a society where people have to be warned not to eat Tide Pods and you want to see these same people walking among us with loaded weapons?

They're too busy eating Tide Pods.

 

[Marchimedes]

You misspelled irrational.

Pointing out a spelling error means you win.

 

[petro]

Lol.
Australia with the same landmass has 27 million people.
They also don't have an overwhelmed border or a violent inner city culture.

It's like comparing apples to pickup trucks.

 

[Marchimedes]

How many armed people were around when Trump was shot at?

Not enough.

 

[Marchimedes]

He paid the guy to shoot him in the ear and then get killed by the Secret Service.

He stood 150 yards away and let someone "nick" his ear? Bigfoot tell you that?

 

[Marchimedes]

Repeal the second amendment.

It's a slogan...

 

[ColonelAngus]

He stood 150 yards away and let someone "nick" his ear? Bigfoot tell you that?

I have heard that from lefty cult *****. Of course that did not happen.

Others still claim he was never shot because that ear is not fucked up.

 

[Marchimedes]

OP uses ChatGPT

Just wait until they put AI in a sex doll, we'll never see him again.

 

[Marchimedes]

I have heard that from lefty cult *****. Of course that did not happen.

You were being sarcastic. My bad.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Australia Doubles Down on Gun Control After Mass Shooting​

For decades, Australians have watched in disbelief as America endured mass shooting after mass shooting. Each horrific episode touched off a familiar cycle of horror in the United States, an outpouring of grief, followed by calls for tougher gun laws that would inevitably dissolve to the status quo.

Most Australians felt certain that things at home were different. After all, three decades ago, it took just 12 days after a massacre in which a gunman killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania, for the country to adopt sweeping gun ownership restrictions. For two decades after the carnage, there wasn’t a single mass shooting in Australia.

The shooting, which left at least 15 dead and scores wounded, has forced a hard look at gun control in Australia — how the number of licensed firearms had steadily risen over the years, how some of the pledged changes were never fully implemented, how the country had gotten complacent in three decades largely free of this particular brand of indiscriminate terror.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/world/australia/australia-gun-control-bondi-shooting.html

Governments are suppose to be designed to be responsive to the wishes of the majority. To solve problems the majority want solved.

AI Overview

Yes, recent polls consistently show that a majority of Americans favor stricter gun control laws in general. For example, polls conducted in late 2024 and 2025 found that 56% to 60% of U.S. adults want gun laws to be stricter.

It has been an epic failure of governance that the US continues to essentially do nothing about the annual, mass slaughter of Americans.

Blaming inantimate objects for this act of anti-semetic Islamic terror is not rational. Demanding even stricter gun control in a country whose highly strict anti-gun laws just failed miserably is not rational. Not demanding stricter Islamic Immigrant control is not rational.

Here is some AI for you:

Yes, Australia has historically had and continues to maintain some of the strictest gun control laws in the world. The core of the current legislation was established in the late 1990s and has been cited internationally as a model for gun control.
Key features of Australia's gun laws include:

• Licensing: All firearm owners must have a license and demonstrate a "genuine reason" for owning a firearm; self-defense is explicitly not an accepted reason.
• Weapon Restrictions: Automatic and most semi-automatic rifles and shotguns are banned for civilian ownership.
• Registration & Buybacks: All firearms must be registered, and major government-funded buyback programs have been used to remove prohibited weapons from public circulation.
• Background Checks: Prospective owners undergo background checks, and individuals with a history of mental illness or criminal offenses are prohibited from obtaining a license.
• Waiting Periods: Mandatory cooling-off periods apply to gun purchases, although some exemptions exist for existing license holders.

Following recent mass shootings, Australian leaders have agreed to pursue even tighter controls, including establishing a national firearms register and limiting the total number of guns an individual can own.

AI About the perpetrators:

The 2025 Bondi Beach mass shooting was perpetrated by a father and son, Sajid Akram (50) and Naveed Akram (24).

• Sajid Akram: An Indian national who immigrated to Australia in 1998, he was shot dead by police at the scene. He legally owned the firearms used in the attack.
• Naveed Akram: An Australian-born citizen who was critically injured by police and later charged with 59 offenses, including 15 counts of murder and committing a terrorist act.

The attack occurred on December 14, 2025, during a Hanukkah celebration and was described by authorities as an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack motivated by antisemitism. Investigators found improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and ISIS flags in a vehicle registered to the younger suspect.

 

[ColonelAngus]

You were being sarcastic. My bad.

All good.

Sarcasm is a good bit of my USMB persona, but I am straightforward as well.

Maybe like 50/50.

I have to be sarcastic to get in the mind of the lefties on this board.

All they know is ORANGE MAN BAD…then they work from that. That is always the genesis of the swill they post.

 

[Marchimedes]

Table is run but then this thread was over when I asked...

You have left the little Ms. at home while outta town selling Sombreros, Maple Syrup and Rice. A n-word with a spear, a south-of-the-border type with a switch blade and a cracker with a 2x4 with a nail in the end kicks open her front door, announce they gonna skull fu(k her to death and steal all her $h!t. She pulls a 38 from under the throw pillow you got her for Valentines Day that says "hands up, don't shoot" and she blows them all away.

You have a problem with that?

I've asked that one a thousand times with nary the answer from a liberal. Defeating the left is simple.

Ask the question they won't answer.

 

[Concerned American]

I doubt is about ones ability to remember things. But you support killing someone because they forgot something. I would've been dead at the age of 5. Who TF doesn't forget something?

LOL, never heard of OBVIOUS sarcasm, eh? Goes hand in hand with your hysteria over gun ownership---or human nature.

 

[Marchimedes]

• Licensing: All firearm owners must have a license and demonstrate a "genuine reason" for owning a firearm; self-defense is explicitly not an accepted reason.

What the Hell is more important than that you fu(kin loser?

Answer my question!

 

[Concerned American]

Cause I'll be selling weapons I machined in my garage.

Or the 3D printer in your bedroom eh?

 

[Seymour Flops]

What the Hell is more important than that you fu(kin loser?

Answer my question!

WTF, over?

 

[Dr Grump]

Here's a better reaction. Each citizen is required to carry a weapon for self protection. The moment a bad guy pulls his gun, he's met with a barrage of citizen fire power. Stop being sheeple on the way to slaughter. Be lions.

That has worked so well in the US so far hasn't it?

 

[Marchimedes]

All they know is...

They want to be boss. But then if I were a skill less, retarded control freak I'd be trying to find ways to take away from my detractors be it suppression of free speech or the ability to defend myself.

 

[Dr Grump]

So people out in the outback are going to have to go out there unarmed now?

You mistake people wanting gun control with confiscation. Farmers etc will still be allowed guns.

 

[Lockback]

WTF, over?

Roger that. Over.