StreetArtGlobeのインスタグラム(streetartglobe) - 11月10日 00時39分
We’ve posted this before but perhaps it’s time for a refresher course.
This photo is from 1997 in Australia. Mick Roelandts, a firearms-reform manager, looks over prohibited weapons that were handed in under the Australian government’s buy-back scheme. 700,000 guns were bought back. Percentage-wise, that’s the equivalent of 40 million guns in the US.
21 years on, and 12 innocent people are shot dead at a Country Music Bar in California, only a year after dozens of people were killed in the Las Vegas mass shooting. We send our love and condolences to everyone in the US who have been devastated by the abuse, ignorance and greed surrounding the country’s gun laws.
The Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, was created in 1789 to arm militia and help revolutionaries and citizens give this country freedom – not to grant freedom to crazy people to commit hate crimes. The US has an incredible constitution, one of the most beautiful texts on human rights that you can read. We are dumbfounded and saddened by the systematic abuse of its purpose in the interest of money and lobby groups.
In Australia, a mass shooting in 1996 resulted in the death of 35 innocent people. Following that, the prime minister, John Howard, instituted a plan to buy back guns and automatic rifles. He fought the states on this until legislature was passed. For this we are eternally grateful. THERE HAS NOT BEEN A MASS SHOOTING IN AUSTRALIA SINCE. “The fundamental problem,” Howard wrote in The New York Times “was the availability of high-powered weapons, which enabled people to convert their murderous impulses into mass killing. Certainly, shortcomings in treating mental illness may have played a role. But nothing trumps easy access to a gun. It is easier to kill 10 people with a gun than with a knife.” The ban of automatic and semi-automatic weapons was accompanied by legislation requiring all applicants to show “genuine reason” for owning a gun. Gun deaths in Australia have dropped by more than half, and mass shootings since this time have been ZERO.
The US has an amazing constitution. Why is money and politics governing this debate?
We need to act. Before it’s too late.
With @bojnovak.
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