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You have to be honest, and say what will actually work, which is what nobody wants to hear, which is that there are just simply way too many firearms, and they are way too accessible.
And they’re too powerful, even handguns too, again, that’s why in Australia … It doesn’t matter if it’s not politically acceptable to say it. I’m not here as a politician or anyone who works in politics. I’m a journalist. Whether or not you like it, the only thing that really works, if you really wanted to bring down gun violence, was to do what Australia did and to do what many other countries in Europe do.
Mike Spies
Senior Staff Writer The Trace
August 27, 2025
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Whenever someone starts a conversation with something to the effect of, “I’m going to be honest with you…” Then that, almost for certain, means their normal state is dishonesty. Furthermore, they are being dishonest now and trying to convince you to believe their lies. Here, Spies* is demonstrating a minor variation on that maxim.
Heinlein once made a similar observation with, “Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.”
Also, never let anyone get away with telling you that no one wants to take your guns.
* One has to wonder, is his dishonesty so embedded in his ancestor’s behavior that they were given this as a family name?
Do unwanted Australians get deported or “sentenced to transport”?
Sent to England as punishment these days.
Funny you should ask…..
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/09/02/the-return-of-transportation-sentencing-australia-seeks-to-ship-illegal-aliens-to-small-pacific-island/
“Looks like transportation is back on the menu, boys!”
I want to reduce “gun violence”, sure, but I want to reduce ALL violence. Unlike a lot of anti-freedom groups, I don’t believe that a person is somehow “more dead” if killed with guns than, say, knives, or hammers, or fists-and-feet, or any of the plethora of other items used in murder more often than so-called “assault weapons”.
And there’s no argument, goblins killed in lawful self-defense have a recidivism rate of zero. I won’t go so far as to say they deserve it, but neither did their victims deserve to be victimized, and if I must choose to support one or the other, I choose to support the peaceable citizens against the criminals. And although I do feel sorry for the peaceable citizens forced into that situation, their actions prevent someone else’s future victimization, which is a net positive for society at large and reduces violence of all types, including “gun violence”.
Ralph Walso Emerson had made a similar statement.
“The more he protested his honor, the faster we counted the spoons.”
If I were being honest, (which I sometimes strive to be.), I would have to point out that the end state of communism. (In the words of Mao.) Is either socialism or a democratic republic.
We seem to be living in something very much akin to both.
So, we live in the times of “show me the man, and I will show you the crime.”
Exactly what someone does anymore is not what’s looked at. It’s one’s purity to the party narrative that makes one a criminal or not.
God said, “There’s not one righteous, no, not one.” Were all dishonest.
Since communistic democratic socialist have put themselves in God’s place. It only stands to reason.
It’s always a matter of how righteous/useful you are for the cause.
Murdering millions is just a level of purity. A threat to party power is unacceptable at any level.
Mike is being honest. As a brainwashed moron journalist, he knows he doesn’t dare tell you what his utopia will cost us all. Because to him it doesn’t matter what it costs. His righteous purity is all that matters.
The truth is the guy is a mental mess. And just like a muslim will lie through his teeth to get an inch ahead for islame.
Changing the words to that 60’s song, “Momma said”.
“Yuri said there will be days like this, there will days like this, oh Yuri said.”
Honesty isn’t even part of the equation anymore.
24 years of being a landlord has taught me: Beware of anyone who starts with: “Let me tell you a story…” because that’s exactly what they’re gonna do.
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The ban on guns in Australia hasn’t worked.There are drive by shootings in Sydney & Melbourne.All the guns used are illegal.
There is no ban on guns in Australia.
Well, no TOTAL ban, anyway.
Some action types are restricted, yes, but after all the talk, I (and many others I know) legally own more (and more powerful) firearms than before the restrictions – handguns included.
It would be wise to remember that firearms legislation in Australia is the province of the individual states. The Federal government has no power beyond that of the purse – threatening other funding to force the states individually to enact the preferred laws.
Are those laws onerous? Yes.
Do they amount to a ban? No.
Did they reduce civilian firearms ownership? No.
Along the same lines, if they say; “Now this is nothing personal.” you can be damned sure it is personal.
Not necessarily personal to them but definitely personal to you!
“I’m a journalist.” I lie for a living.
If you want to be honest then you need to tell the truth. Just about half of gun violence in the USA is committed by about 2.4 % of the population. Those shooters are black males between 15 and 35 years of age. They live in roughly 300 census tracts. So we know who and where. Rudy Giuliani reduced murders in NYC from 2400 to 600 per year by making it impossible for young black men to carry pistols. Stop and Frisk made an obviois and almost immediate difference. 43000 guns were taken off the City’s streets in the first year or two. NYPD under Giuliani saved somewhere around 10000 (mostly young and black) lives during his eight years. The courts and leftists ended it. To be honest first you need to face facts. That is, you need to acknowledge the truth.
I have no doubt that “Stop and Frisk” saved lives.
Even so, “the courts and leftists” put a stop to it for multiple reasons: the Left because in practice it reeked of racial profiling, the Right because it violates the Constitution on its face. It’s a violation of the 4th Amendment to be stopped and searched (i.e. detained) without reasonable articulable suspicion. Being a young black man walking through a predominantly black neighborhood is not reasonable suspicion by itself, but regardless of whether or not they found weapons, too many of the officers involved couldn’t provide any more substantial reason for the stop than “walking while black.”
At the end of the day, it’s true that the “young black male” demographic is responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime, but it’s also true that it’s not all — or even most — young black males; it’s a relatively small subset of that already-small group. Most people of any demographic are decent enough human beings that don’t deserve to be stopped and frisked or otherwise treated like criminals because of what they look like.