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A VICTORIAN high school has defended its decision to take students as young as 12 on a shooting expedition two days after the Sandy Hook massacre.
More than 50 students, aged between 12 and 15, from Ballarat High School and Beaufort Secondary College attended the Beaufort Gun Club yesterday where they were taught to wield rifles and fire up to 20 rounds each.
Gun Control Australia secretary David Stack said the excursion was idiotic following the US tragedy.
"It crossed my mind (to cancel the event) . . . but do you stop teaching swimming because someone drowned?" he said.
Originally posted by yourmaker
In a way, isn't this like foreign interference?
It happened in the US yet the Australians are treating it as if it had happened there?
Suspect.
Originally posted by magma
Originally posted by yourmaker
In a way, isn't this like foreign interference?
It happened in the US yet the Australians are treating it as if it had happened there?
Suspect.
Yep part of the bigger agenda. it is like at work you get a brief as to what it is that you will be doing for a particular task. The media have a brief and it is to assist in the disarming of the American people.
Australia is so far up the *** of the USA that there is no daylight
There is reason to think the Port Arthur massacre was planned as early 1987 when, after a specially called Premier's meeting in Hobart in December 1987, the New South Wales Labour Premier, Mr. Barry Unsworth stated, "there would be no effective gun control in Australia until there was a massacre in Tasmania"
Originally posted by yourmaker
In a way, isn't this like foreign interference?
It happened in the US yet the Australians are treating it as if it had happened there?
Suspect.
Originally posted by Manhater
I think too many people are watching "The Walking Dead" with little Carl running around with a weapon. That's what is. They think it should be okay for kids to strut around with weapons while their minds haven't even developed yet.
Originally posted by Manhater
I think too many people are watching "The Walking Dead" with little Carl running around with a weapon. That's what is. They think it should be okay for kids to strut around with weapons while their minds haven't even developed yet.
Get a grip sunshine, foreign interference pfft, if you didnt know it australia held the record for deaths in a mass shooting up untill recently so its only natural this might have touched a few hearts here.
Originally posted by magma
Originally posted by Manhater
I think too many people are watching "The Walking Dead" with little Carl running around with a weapon. That's what is. They think it should be okay for kids to strut around with weapons while their minds haven't even developed yet.
Actually need to disagree here. I think it actually educates people, not just the kids, but the adults and the community. How can this be a bad thing?
Originally posted by magma
reply to post by repeatoffender
Get a grip sunshine, foreign interference pfft, if you didnt know it australia held the record for deaths in a mass shooting up untill recently so its only natural this might have touched a few hearts here.
Great record to hold wasn't it?
Records are meant to be broken.
Wonder if Martin Bryant feels the same way?
Originally posted by Manhater
reply to post by repeatoffender
Sorry but in the middle towards the end look at their demeanor and the way they are looking at each other. They were looking to use that gun that night. Maybe not the one in the grey sweatshirt but the one in the blue jacket.
The body Language on both of them were suspicious.edit on 17-12-2012 by Manhater because: (no reason given)
America land of the gns and mass shootings cant even top the list
Originally posted by magma
So do you stop teaching children to swim if there is a drowning reported in the media? Ummm no
So teaching kids to be responsible with firearms is a good thing. I stand by the schools choice to continue on their programe
My thoughts are...
1. No. Given how appallingly badly Australian students rate compared to others worldwide, they need to spend more time in classrooms learning Readin, Ryting, Rithmatic. Less time on fun excursions, no matter how worldly interesting they might seem.