Guns Are Not Big Boy Toys
Some of us never quite grow up, it seems. Guns are not big boy toys. Why do individuals who live in the suburbs need fire arms? Recreational pursuits, they say. Well, these are not toys to be played with, they are, in fact, deadly weapons which make killing human beings easy. A fire arm gets stolen every 4 hours in Australia, according to the latest research. We are putting ourselves at risk if we place the recreational desires of a few above the safety of us all. We are not talking about farmers and people who live in the bush here, as the vast majority of guns are owned by Australians living in cities.
“There was a random shooting in inner-west Sydney. Police officers were killed in regional Victoria. Shootings in Queensland are becoming common enough that they barely make the news. There are now more than 4 million guns legally owned in Australia, more than before the Port Arthur tragedy in 1996. Worse still, significant numbers of legally-owned guns are stolen each year, according to research published by the Australia Institute.”
- (https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/every-four-hours-a-gun-is-stolen-in-australia-new-research/)
A Fire Arm Gets Stolen Every 4 Hours In Australia
The Bondi shooters had legal access to 6 fire arms, which made killing and wounding all those poor people easier. That is the bottom line. Every day we hear about Australians being shot and killed on the news. We cannot afford for some section of the community to play with guns, when the dire consequences of these deadly devices can wreak havoc. We no longer live in a nation with a small population and we have to amend our behaviours on that basis. Guns are not big boy toys. Certain people cannot pretend that they live and play by different rules to the rest of us. We are all in this together, like it or not.
Guns Are A Right Wing Problem Downunder
Indeed, you can characterise the political campaigning of a lot of right wing parties as appeals to an Australia of yesteryear. To a simpler time, when life was, or is presented as was, far less complicated. In reality, you can never turn the clock back and these political strategists know that – they just want your vote. One Nation presents their illusion of when Australia was whiter and blokes ruled the roost unequivocally. A time when there was no place for poofters, wogs or black fellas at the big table. Right now, there is a barney on for the right wing vote between the Libs, Nats and One Nation. Most Australians in the cities know that this right wing vision of Australia is a pipe dream and the younger ones don’t want any part of it anyway. The future is progressive, not Trumpist, and most Aussies appreciate the multicultural society in which they live. What concerns them is getting financially screwed by baby boomers.
Right Wing Parties Funded By Oligarchs & Billionaires
The thing about right wing political parties is that they always represent the wealthy, powerful and big end of town. They campaign on shit like being anti-woke but they are funded by the Gina Rinehart’s’ and Kerry Stokes’ types. Advance Australia galvanises them via emotive issues like immigration but behind that lies mining and property development interests. They get into power on the back of the culture wars and then steal your lunch via their corporate mates. The oligarchy and the billionaires are funding the Right. We had 10 years under the LNP Coalition federally and economically that defines where we find ourselves today. It takes time for this stuff to filter down into economic reality. Unaffordable housing, expensive food and energy costs, these things didn’t just happen overnight. Ask yourself, who pays tax in Australia? Not the wealthy and not the corporations. It is workers paying income tax who carry the load.
“There were 91 Australians who earned more than $1 million in total income yet paid no tax in 2022-23, according to newly released data from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).”
Stop Worrying About Your Guns & Take A Look At The Books
American multinationals like Google (Alphabet), Apple, Uber, Pepsi, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft all make huge amounts of revenue trading in Australia but pay little corporate tax. Why? They profit shift via accounting tricks to tax havens elsewhere to ensure that they pay bugger all tax downunder. We are talking about billions of dollars at stake here, folks. This is the American way of doing business. And, by the way, guns are not big boy toys.
Get The Guns Out Of The Hands Of Right Wing Types
Far Right parties are not going to win government in Australia, as most Aussies abhor extremism and what Donald Trump is doing. However, most of the fire arms are in the hands of right wing types and this is a potential problem. Too many are getting sucked in via the internet to dystopian American shit. Americans don’t trust their governments or institutions, hence their obsession with conspiracy theories about everything. There are an estimated 600 million fire arms in the US. We have seen a Sovereign Citizen murder police in Victoria. Christian terrorists murder police and a neighbour in Queensland. Both of these mass murders are American imports in that the thinking behind them came from over there. Gun violence and extremism are the products of the distrust brewing in parts of America. Toxic masculinity, small penis paranoia, incel, Sovereign Citizens, Christian Nationalism and MAGA types should not be anywhere near fire arms. Bullies want brute strength to be the defining factor in who runs things. Power is what it is always about. Everything else is a side show, folks. Guns are not big boy toys.
Why Christians Support Authoritarianism?
“The foundation of organised religion is hierarchical authoritarianism. It is a patriarchal construct with an imagined divine father figure at the top. Just below this comes the actual top guy in the particular church. Pope, Patriarch, or Archbishop, as there are different names for this office depending upon the brand of Christianity. In the Evangelical or Baptist churches the local pastor or minister is the head guy for each local church in this more decentralised setup. There may be less hierarchy in these instances but the authority remains with some man ministering to the flock and interpreting the ‘so-called’ word of God. Christians are supporters of authoritarianism.”
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of What Price Life?; America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump; and other titles. NOW AVAILABLE AT APPLE BOOKS & GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS. Google Play Books AUDIOBOOK
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