Comments by "bj0rn" (@TheLivirus) on "Gun Massacre Forces Change in Australia, Why Not in the U.S.?" video.

  1. Do everyone a favour and read this: /wiki/Gun_politics_in_Australia#Measuring_the_effects_of_firearms_laws_in_Australia The statistics Cenk show are oversimplistic, cherrypicked, and out of context.
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  2. I just did.
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  3. Don't burst his bubble. America is the best country in the world and everyone wanna go there because freedom.
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  4. "The fact is that the introduction of those laws did not result in any acceleration of the downward trend in gun homicide. They may have reduced the risk of mass shootings but we cannot be sure because no one has done the rigorous statistical work required to verify this possibility. It is always unpleasant to acknowledge facts that are inconsistent with your own point of view. But I thought that was what distinguished science from popular prejudice." - Don Weatherburn, NSW BOCSAR
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  5. So the question is, how do we change this attitude? I mean the attitudes you're talking about aren't hardwired, but shaped by culture.
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