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Posted by: Qbix89
Talking about Sweden is an ultrabannable offense.
Posted by: Achronos
Too bad being completely and utterly wrong isn't a bannable offense.
Posted by: Potato Joe
Posted by: Garshne
Posted by: Potato Joe
Posted by: Garshne
We don't have a police officer on every corner but we have enough of them that at most it would take them five minutes to respond, not 15.
To take 15 minutes to get somewhere driving at full speed with the siren on, you'd have to be outside the -blam!- city itself. Do you only have one police station in your entire city? In your entire region? Here in Australia we have one police station per suburb and that's how it -blam!- should be.
Does it even cross your mind that police in a big city are not standing around waiting for a call? You have to take in account that most of them are on other calls or assignments.
We are not talking about a suburb in Australia. We are talking about thousands of police in a city of millions of people.
Unless they happen to be around the corner, they are not going to get to you in under five minutes. When someone is breaking into your house, seconds matter, not minutes.
You would be better off having a firearm than not. I live in the sixth largest city in Aussieland, but even in Sydney, the largest city in the country, I can expect the same sort of response time. Especially if I'm in an inner city suburb.
Would I be better off having a gun in Australia? Are you really trying to tell me that?
Well I can't say since I'm not you. But I would and always will have a gun in my home.
If you lived in a neighborhood with high crime would you still not want to own a gun?Yes, because if that's in Australia then I am confident in my government and police force's ability to combat that crime. I already live in a city with some of the highest crime rates in the country. But the police are combating that, and the government are combating that. We're one of the few cities in Australia to have a police helicopter because the crime is getting that bad here. But the fact that the government spent money to improve the police here is enough to tell me that they're actually doing -blam!- about it.
That being said, I don't mind guns. I have an interest in all things military, and if I wasn't legally blind I would already have signed up as a tanker in the ADF, ready to fight the Commies in South China when the next world war comes around.
It seems that the difference between me and you is that I have confidence in my government and police and you don't. Don't you want to have confidence in your police?
Hell, even Indonesia, which is a poor, corrupt -blam!-hole, has an extremely capable police force. Quite heavy handed though, but they have to be to make up for their corrupt comrades.
[Edited on 12.27.2012 12:33 AM PST]