Guns don't kill people, Americans with guns kill people.
Gun Control Australia is calling for an international response to the United States' impotence in the face of yet another mass shooting. The director of Gun Control Australia, Samantha Lee, laid out a plan for boycott against the United States, with the hopes of applying international pressure to force the U.S. to own up to
our lack of gun control.
“We have 2.1 million Australians visiting the U.S. every year and over 200,000 expats in America,” Lee said. “So I believe we have a duty to respond to this tragedy in the U.S. And the way to do this is have a boycott of non-essential travel to the U.S.”
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Lee also suggested that Australia ban donations from the firearms industry to their political parties, which she said would “allow us to raise that issue with America to ban donations from the gun lobby.”
The reality here is that there will never be any international boycott to force the United States to create new policy. Never. But, this is yet another embarrassing and sad reminder of how insane our gun control policies are in the United States in the face of our neverending
gun violence epidemic. Also, before you jump into all of the problems in Australia, and who are they to talk about solutions to gun violence, just remember that our representatives have identified our gun violence problems being the
result of such things as integration.
You can watch Samantha Lee on Australia's Today program, below the fold.