Comment on Four-year-old boy dies after car crashes into shopping centre in Canberra
Dimand@aussie.zone 3 weeks agoI 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”.
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
What are you trying to achieve here.
What are you devils advocating for.
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
It seems to me they are saying that the community massively under-appreicates how much death and danger we accept from the use of cars.
And that our cities are STILL being designed for cars, despite decades of evidence that it’s a dumb idea (with some decent urban planning sprinkled in from time to time).
Australia has massive car-brain.
This death was assisted by that, because we don’t design our cities properly.
Cars kill. And people need to wake up to that, especially when they’re behind the wheel, which many have no choice but to do because of the design of our cities.