Comment on Four-year-old boy dies after car crashes into shopping centre in Canberra

Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Dimand@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why? Cars are incredibly dangerous devices, even though modern cars are designed to 'feel" safe. Hell you even need a licence to use one. Many people that drive have no idea how much damage they are capable of behind the wheel and are totally complacent.

  If they didn’t have such incredible utility, they would be far more restricted.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And a gun is a weapon designed explicitly to kill things.

    They are not the same and you’re a piece of utter shit if you try and take a four year olds death and hurr hurr gun laws baaad on It.

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    • Dimand@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I actually think we have excellent gun laws and I expect the net effect of the upcoming changes will largely be positive as well.

      However strongly disagree that just because the designer of the car wasn’t thinking it would be used to kill things, makes the car less dangerous than it is. I honestly wish people treated cars with a much closer attitude to firearms, a machine with potential to do incredible damage and harm if used incorrectly.

      I do wonder what the outcome would have been if the Bondi terrorists had used cars instead of firearms. Probably a lot of sadness, a few bollards and a political, “guess there is nothing we can do about this”.

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      • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What are you trying to achieve here.

        What are you devils advocating for.

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