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Look, everyone! A rational response!
What? You were expecting thoughts and prayers?
Wait what? Rapid policy change in response to gun violence?
Good job
AustraliaAustria!Australia also had a pretty strong reaction when it happened there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)
America currently going: “la la la la la” while turning its back to the problem.
I’ll toss this on the mountain of proactive things other countries are doing that the U.S. isn’t.
The main issue I have with laws like these is… once the person who “needed to cool off” has the gun all they need is to get hot-headed again and this time there isn’t a cool-off period for them to access it.
The psychology “test” is all fine and good, but a test doesn’t tell you what an actual licensed psychologist can. Way too easy for someone to just lie on a test if they know what the “right” answers are. A lot more difficult to hide dangerous personality traits in front of another human being. Step it up one more notch to requiring a psychological evaluation.
Would any psychologist risk their entire career and criminal liability to grant anyone a pass to obtain a firearms license? For what is ultimately a hobby?
I mean I guess it’s a better system then just being able to walk into a random store and just buy a gun. In my country we have a pretty strict gun control you need have not committed any crimes and be able to get a document from the government saying so, you’ll also need the following;
- be part of a gun club, which itself has a cool down period of several months and they can refuse you for whatever reason they see fit
- have a minimum amount of shooting days per year
- have to participate in the yearly contest for one of the different disciplines possible at the club
- have to be a continuous member of previously mentioned club at least one year before you can even apply for your first licence
- your first licence can only be in a single .22 weapon, this weapons will be registered to you as a person and your place of residence
- your gun and ammo needs to be in separate safe’s, also the gun may not be stored in a loaded state
- after you have the weapon you will be checked at random and you need to be able to show the weapon at the visiting police officer immediately, or if you cannot show it at the local police station within a few days after the visit. if they visit they will check if your safe('s) are properly mounted to wall/floor
- have to extend your licence yearly
- if you fail the checks or violate any laws you will lose your license and you will need to either store your weapon(s) at a registered location or sell them, evidence of both will need to be shared with the police. you can apply for a new licence after one year of probation
- the maximum amount of weapons you can have registered at any time is 5
Firearms are either considered a part of sport (hence the clubs) of for hunting which has their own subset of rules. You can never have any full automatic firearms, those are considered for military use only.
I bet the kid was American /s
I’m glad to see a country do more than ask pointlessly, “what else can we do?”
“serious psychology test”
Until someone from a different political party comes in and turns it into a “political party loyalty test”
Soooo, we then just go back to handing guns to anyone?
Sorry, but with that attitude we can’t improve anything. How about we just keep it a psychology test?
Isn’t Austria’s military service age lower than 21?
They can just join military and access guns there
