Six killed in Philadelphia shooting rampage- you need better laws! Ban guns! http://abc.net.au/news/5969666
Severine Lee @SeverineLee
Tweeted on December 15, 2014
[Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.—Joe]
If they would simply ban crime, then no one would be able to break the law, right? Why don’t they ban crime? What are they waiting for?
Uh, didn’t the Land Down Under just suffer through a similar shooting/hostage event, in a country where guns are much harder to come by? My suggestion to the Aussie commentator – STFU about our affairs here at home.
Whatever the malady, the cure is always the snake oil the statists are selling. Ever more powerful, intrusive, burdensome and unredressable government
It could be a bit of sour grapes….
I find there is a strong parallel between the argument for gun control and the argument for restricting speech and privacy (i.e., bad people will use the freedom in bad ways)
Eben Moglen was asked a related question regarding encryption and privacy of online communications at Linux.conf.au:
The embedded video didn’t capture the time, starts around 48:22.