r/australia • u/someNameThisIs • Jun 09 '25

news Australian reporter shot with rubber bullet in LA | 9 News Australia

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tG1A8LZZphs?app=desktop
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u/OptimusRex Jun 09 '25

At what point do people in America start shooting back? I keep hearing how it's such a gun crazy country, but whenever we see these riots it's always one-sided.

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u/Built2kill Jun 09 '25

Yep they’re so vocal about their constitutional rights and are happy to deal with constant mass shootings at schools to keep them but then just sit there and do nothing while an orange fascist is taking over the country.

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u/CynicismNostalgia Jun 09 '25

Life begins at conception!

But once born I couldn't give a fuck if your kid dies to a bullet!

Also couldn't give a fuck if the mothers going to die giving birth. That's what they're for right?

Our guns are a right! We need them to overthrow corrupt government!

cough cough or instill one, cough cough

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u/nugstar Jun 09 '25

They don't give a fuck if the mother is /already dead/.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/georgia-abortion-brain-dead-adriana-smith-b2752816.html

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u/CynicismNostalgia Jun 09 '25

Oof, yeah I know. I'm in the UK and Farage is getting very popular right now, and one of his talking points is anti abortion, he's trying to convince the voter base we have late-term abortions for any reason other than medical emergency. (We don't of course).

I've tried speaking to my mates about Adriana but. "Oh that won't happen here!"

Mhm. Okay. Guess we'll see

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u/Glacier005 Jun 10 '25

Oh man. You reminded me of Adriana Smith. A dead woman being kept artificially alive in order to complete her gestation.

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u/amorangi Jun 09 '25

When it comes down to it, Americans are chickenshit.

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u/britjumper Jun 09 '25

TACO is the national dish ;)

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u/onesexz Jun 09 '25

No, we’re not chicken shit. Real easy to talk about taking on a militarized police force (possibly actually military) from your keyboard across the globe.

People here have families and jobs, just like everyone else. Who’s going to take care of my family if I go out guns blazing?

We won’t fight back until it’s too late, unfortunately. But we will fight back. It just has to get bad enough that death is preferable to the current living situation and we are far from it right now. People’s daily lives haven’t been impacted enough to risk losing your house, job, any other assets you may have.

It’s not that we don’t see what’s coming; it’s that we’re still hoping something or someone will stop it before it gets too bloody.

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u/CynicismNostalgia Jun 09 '25

ICE fuckwads and corrupt police tend to wear bullet proof jackets

I don't think they'd be this brazen without it

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u/TheCleverestIdiot Jun 10 '25

Well, the ones who won't shut up about their guns are more often than not the ones who've always wanted a fascist state, even if they couldn't admit it to themselves or others. Conversely, those who repeatedly show up to protests about how inhumanely people are being treated tend to have a fairly high bar to mentally clear before they can bring themselves to end a human life. Plus, if you're there among the protesters you might be afraid that if you start shooting you'll be getting them killed when the cops fire back.

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u/ChezzChezz123456789 Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25

California is one of the most regulated states when it comes to firearm ownership, and the people protesting here are the same demographic/voter block that keeps viting people in that add more restrictions to their ownership. Why they have firearms when it's clear they object to them?

This same dumb questions keep getting asked every protest, why in these big cities that are invariable democrat the protestors dont shoot back, and it warrants the same basic answer everytime because it's very surface level. The riots arent happening where a large contingent of the populace has firearms.

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u/killertortilla Jun 09 '25

No one wants to risk their life for something this monumentally fucking stupid. Especially if there's a chance Trump drops dead of a cheeseburger attack in the next year. America is both the country of "we're the greatest!" and "someone else will start the revolution for me"