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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!Austria lol. Mozart, not kangaroos.
Beethoven being born in Germany and Hitler being born in Austria was one of those trivia facts I learned as a 12 year old — or thereabouts; I forget how old I was — that made me question everything. I was obviously, by definition, uneducated at that age but I had just sort of lumped “classical music=Vienna” and “Hitler=Germany.”
It’s obviously an odd fact to blow a kid’s mind and there were many more such moments to come but, for some reason, that factoid was a very effective one on my journey to realizing I didn’t know shit. (A journey I’m still on, even on things I have a degree in or worked on. Nothing teaches you how much you don’t know like learning enough to realize you haven’t even scratched the surface.)
Whoops, thanks!
Australia also had a pretty strong reaction when it happened there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)
Austria? well then, gday mate! let’s put another shrimp on the barbie!
I’ll toss this on the mountain of proactive things other countries are doing that the U.S. isn’t.
“serious psychology test”
Until someone from a different political party comes in and turns it into a “political party loyalty test”
The thing is, this is mostly reactionary politics. They do this because it’s easy and they can say “see we did something, gib vote”.
Instead phsychological care is being reduced, which would be way more valuable in the long term.
I am not saying gun laws are bad, just that they don’t pose that much of a problem in Austria if it weren’t for psychological issues. Not to speak about alcohol, unrelated to the shooting but ffs thats an issue nobody touches because “culture”-_-. I just mention this because regulating this properly and/or providing psychogical care for alcohol problems, or even aknowledging that it IS a problem, would go way further in preventing harm and accidents.
Not as interesting of an issue of course, no outrageous headlines to be made that don’t negatively impact politicians…
I bet the kid was American /s
I’m glad to see a country do more than ask pointlessly, “what else can we do?”
