Re:Wake Up! It CAN be done. (Score 1)

I would have thought that if owning a gun were a way of overturning a government decision, then the one in which they restricted the guns would have been the one overturned

that one got through though...so i really fail to see what owning a weapon has to do with a disagreement over governtment policy

If you think that owning a gun will make a difference, then you mean to say that you think people should kill people they disagree with and replace them with ones they do agree with rather than tell them that they disagree first..and then vote them out of power if they dont change their mind

Weapons serve one purpose, to kill, not to change people's minds

The gun control laws and the buy - back scheme were more of a fairly transparent attempt by the government to win votes rather than any real attempt to take away rights.

This is a similar situation, except it's not the votes of the people the government was trying to win, it was the vote of One man, as has been mentioned in a number of posts

All in all it just goes to show how badly the Australian system of government is working right now, that the government is more concerned about the good will of one independant senator than that of voting Australians