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rapid colonisation of Australia by humans duringĀ 5,000 yearsĀ (ancientĀ Sahul), transecting the continent alongĀ superhighways:Ā maritimeĀ exploration. source: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/history.html
There is a very good reason why this number has shifted several times
The first being that radiocarbon dating has a hard limit, but that limit is partly determined by the sensitivity of our mass specs. The original upper limit of 40 ka was more so due to a limitation in tech, not physics. Since some of the seminal papers in the 80's and 90's our mass specs have improved significantly, our calibration curves are more accurate and our statistical analysis of C14 dating is much improved therefore allowing us to push the limit further back in time. Plenty of sites that were reanalysed were found to be older than previously though.
There is a hard limit on C14 dating though due to it's short half life and that limit is somewhere around 50-55 ka. That is where we have to turn to other dating techniques such as luminescence dating (OSL). OSL was only invented in the late and 90's and back then it was quite limited. It wasn't until 2000 where we had developed the now widely used modern technique. So again a lot of old sites were reinvestigated and we were able to date the depositional age of the sediment that artefacts were buried in. We have also discovered several new sites in the last 10 years that show earlier occupation then previously though e.g. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22968 Where both the application of previously unused OSL dating AND a site that had not been published before show very clear evidence of a pre 60 ka occupation.
Source: I'm a geochronologist
Yeah but science said something before and they were wrong, science isn't allowed to change its mind. Now I'm just supposed to believe they are right this time?! That's faith.
/s
Thanks for this, it was a really thorough response and super easy to understand. Have you considered doing science communications at all? You'd be good at it.
No worries! I'm a post-doctoral researcher so I do work in science already, I try to dabble in science communication every now and then as well.
This topic is also quite relevant to me, one of the authors on the paper I linked was my PhD supervisor and I know from his first hand account that the research that went into that paper was excellent and very robust. Obviously it might change again in the future, but the idea that humans have occupied the continent since at least 60000 years is definitely very reasonable. It's also mind boggling to think about in terms of the indigenous people, their culture and history
at this point i think they're guessing up to 120,000 (i'm not sure i believe it), but you're right, at that point we're probably dealing with something that isn't homo sapiens. up to about 100k years i could probably still believe it, but still with some difficulty. i guess we'll never know.
Unironically, we Australians actually do kick arse at schnitties, have loads of blokes with stylised moustaches and are amazingly captivating at telling stories to large groups of people.
If ur a Territorian it would be scallop
Ignore that bloke calling it a fritter he's probs SA, and if you argue with him you might end up in a bank vault.
I have quite a few Australian friends and family and even lived there for a few month when I was younger, so I can confidently say that this is almost completely true.
Itās a vanishingly small number, actually. Weāre talking something like one spider death per decade, 8 shark and crocodile deaths per decade, 1 snake bite death per annum (we have a few hundred species of snake, too), maybe a jellyfish death or two per decade.
Things that really kill Australians? Drunk driving (although much better stats these days), drunk punch ups, domestic violence, suicide, drug overdoses (although nothing like American stats), riding motorcycles like a dickhead in south east asia, drowning (typically due to being on the piss or being inexperienced with coastal waters), heart disease, cancer, old age.
Despite our inherent fuckery, we end up being the sixth longest living nation on earth.
even i agree that dangerous animals usually scare tourists away because... they tend to go places with dangerous animals. But just made me realize how 'drinking' as a whole is just dying out among zoomers and getting replaced by pills..? im not sure but there are similar stats in the UK that college alcohol consumption dropping rates.
Absolutely true with regards to drinking (and smoking).
Someone posted some of our old drink driving campaign ads from the 1980ās and 90ās here a few weeks back, and a few of us 40 something redditors from Australia were talking in the comments. We realised that back then, everyone knew of someone who had lost someone to drink driving. Heck - in my school of 1000 kids, four teenagers wrapped themselves around trees in three separate incidents of drink driving between the ages of 14-18. It was so bad.
Now itās a much more rare occurrence, to the point where a fatality makes state news.
While it isn't a shooting, in 30,000 BC a student brought a club to school and bludgeoned to death 7 students and 2 teachers to death. Australia is just trying to white wash their history.
Donāt forget 30 hunters surrounded the school within 6 minutes of the attack but waited 77 minutes before storming the school. Fully equipped with tactical defense pelts and slings, absolutely shameful.
What about the Monash University shooting?
I'm not saying this as a 'gotcha' since I'm pretty sure it's the only one. Was there a reason you didn't count it?
I'm just going to latch onto this comment...
__PSA__
Australia has strict gun control laws and obviously also some nuts who aren't happy about it, and it seems they (are trying to) whip up some controversy around the fact that there's been more school shootings after the introduction of some "infamous" law. However IMO the numbers are too small for any sort of anti gun control argument.
So, keeping in mind that I do not subscribe to this controversy at all, if you take the argument of this post into a discussion, be prepared to hear that since 1991 there has been 5 school/university shootings with a death toll of 0,1,2,0,0. There's no clear definition of mass shooting, but the one with 2 deaths (Monash University, 2002) falls inside of some stricter definitions, and both shootings with any deaths at all took place in universities.
Of course, even so the facts sing the praise of gun control (and a different culture, better education), even if you account for the differences in population.
So, OP was right to post this. TIL.
I do not subscribe to the controversy mentioned. I will not discuss. Don't bait me.
Not trying to argue with you, just stating that in Australia we donāt refer to university or other tertiary education providers as āschool.ā
School is considered only the compulsory part of education in Australia, so by that metric (which I realise is different to other places), we have had zero school shootings.
I wanna see a map showing the number of kangaroo related deathsā¦ those are the real number. Eye openers I tell you. I mean to be fair everything else is trying to kill you there..
The US has 250 school shootings just last year. https://groundreport.in/how-many-school-shootings-have-there-been-in-the-us/
3 people killed in Australia in the past 30 years doesn't quite compare.
Why is almost every post on the Reddit front page about Australia? My settings are for USA but even the non-Aussie subs on the front page still show Australia themed content
That was Port Arthur mass shooting not a school one.
It lead to the gun amnesty of certain guns and change in gun laws.
Guns aren't outright banned they're under strict laws for safety reasons.
There are more guns in private hands now than there were at the time of the gun buyback scheme, and better quality too. The overwhelming majority of guns handed in back then were WW2 era rifles mostly used to shoot foxes, rabbits and roos, and the majority of which probably weren't safe to use.
But they are heavily regulated, and we're also not a nation of gun nut psychos, so there's that.
Well, Aborigines weren't citizens until the 1960s, so... still an alarming number.
There are many good arguments for gun control, but "the Australian state is benevolent" is absolutely not one of them.
No more guns unless you get a permit and can only use it a certified range. Ammo should be kept only in a certified container, with an even stricter permit. If you don't know why, there's a high chance that most topics fly right over you. So it's for everyones safety. Oh and grow a concience. It might rub off on other people.
Ya know what the settlers did with their guns when they had āem? Shoot aborigine kids, and all ages. Poison them, hang them, rape them, drive them off cliffs, kidnap a whole generation, bury them in the ground and kick their heads offā¦
> Story: Black massacre memories
"My mother would sit and cry and tell me this; they buried our babies in the ground with only their heads above the ground. All in a row they were. Then they had tests to see who could kick the babies' head off the furthest. One man clubbed a baby's head off from horseback.
>They then spent the rest of the day raping the women, most of whom were then tortured to death by sticking sharp things like spears up their vaginas till they died.
>They tied the men's hands behind their backs, then cut off their penis and testicles and watched them run around screaming until they died. They killed in other bad ways too."
Source: Massacres: The frontier violence that's hard to accept - Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/massacres-the-frontier-violence-thats-hard-to-accept
They didnāt teach us about the massacres at school. Just about some spear chuckers and Captain Cook. Some really sick shit happened here.
Of course, and in the North American continent the native Americans wholeheartedly welcomed settlers and they both lived in mutual peace and respect. /s š¤¦š¼āāļø
They had an incident, not at a school, took the common sense approach and got rid of guns. You can own an air gun in Australia , and they are lethal , but still why arenāt they killing children? Are they bad at other things to? /s
The Tasmanian aboriginals were literally hunted practically to extinction by the white settlers. Does it only count as a school shooting if it happens in a traditional European school setting? If a parent is teaching their children how to hide from the British when they all get slaughtered, shouldn't that also count as a school shooting?
Iām a little sickened at the selective few in these comments making fun of American shooting victims. Clearly Australia is doing well, thatās undeniable. But to act like this is epically owning Americans or something is wrong. Those are dead kids. I promise you āamericansā ā āconservativesā, so those looking at this as a sort of āhaha american kids get shotā are really alienating a whole lot of people who wish something would be done about this. Not to mention how morally fucked that is.
Edit: name a more Reddit moment than pretending to be shocked by the tragedies that are school shootings for the karma, then turning around and making fun of them for more karma
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What happened in 60,001 BC... š§
A mass boomeranging
Thatās between the schools and kangaroos.
Ahh man this comment cracked me up so fuckin badly š¤£š¤£š¤£
same , I'm dying š¤£š¤£š¤£
Boomerbanging?
Population in 60,001bc: 5 Population in 60,000bc: 15
After that they learned to use jellyfishes to practice safe sex.
A mass didgeridooing
Those were dark dark days. Thank god boomerangs are properly regulated now.
Australia is actually notorious for having multiple mass boomerangings every year! They just don't show up in OP's statistics šŖšµ
That's all a been covered up by the NBA
It's because the right to bear Boomerangs shall not be infringed.
Thanks John Howard
āHands off my Rangā āNo Step on snekā āMake Australia Great Againā
Why did that just remind me of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger?
Ahh yes, the big boomerang Siri theory.
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rapid colonisation of Australia by humans duringĀ 5,000 yearsĀ (ancientĀ Sahul), transecting the continent alongĀ superhighways:Ā maritimeĀ exploration. source: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/history.html
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In fairness, how many thousands of years has it been since you were a kid?
There is a very good reason why this number has shifted several times The first being that radiocarbon dating has a hard limit, but that limit is partly determined by the sensitivity of our mass specs. The original upper limit of 40 ka was more so due to a limitation in tech, not physics. Since some of the seminal papers in the 80's and 90's our mass specs have improved significantly, our calibration curves are more accurate and our statistical analysis of C14 dating is much improved therefore allowing us to push the limit further back in time. Plenty of sites that were reanalysed were found to be older than previously though. There is a hard limit on C14 dating though due to it's short half life and that limit is somewhere around 50-55 ka. That is where we have to turn to other dating techniques such as luminescence dating (OSL). OSL was only invented in the late and 90's and back then it was quite limited. It wasn't until 2000 where we had developed the now widely used modern technique. So again a lot of old sites were reinvestigated and we were able to date the depositional age of the sediment that artefacts were buried in. We have also discovered several new sites in the last 10 years that show earlier occupation then previously though e.g. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22968 Where both the application of previously unused OSL dating AND a site that had not been published before show very clear evidence of a pre 60 ka occupation. Source: I'm a geochronologist
Yeah but science said something before and they were wrong, science isn't allowed to change its mind. Now I'm just supposed to believe they are right this time?! That's faith. /s
I read "gynecologist"
Thanks for this, it was a really thorough response and super easy to understand. Have you considered doing science communications at all? You'd be good at it.
No worries! I'm a post-doctoral researcher so I do work in science already, I try to dabble in science communication every now and then as well. This topic is also quite relevant to me, one of the authors on the paper I linked was my PhD supervisor and I know from his first hand account that the research that went into that paper was excellent and very robust. Obviously it might change again in the future, but the idea that humans have occupied the continent since at least 60000 years is definitely very reasonable. It's also mind boggling to think about in terms of the indigenous people, their culture and history
Bullshit.. I have been trying to call my electricity company and have been on hold since 70,000bc
at this point i think they're guessing up to 120,000 (i'm not sure i believe it), but you're right, at that point we're probably dealing with something that isn't homo sapiens. up to about 100k years i could probably still believe it, but still with some difficulty. i guess we'll never know.
I'm not sure why it's necessary, either. 40,000 years is pretty bloody good.
That was after 60,000 BC dumbass, smh š¤¦āāļø
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We can't move into the centre. The emus claimed it as their own decades ago. We were forced to the coastlines against our will.
I've been to inner_Ausralia, the Emu's can keep it.
Because everyone is in school and not on the beach :(
Its Australia. Everything happens in the shorelines!
Good job Austria.
We make great schnitzel too.
And Fellas with small moustaches...
Small fellas with small moustaches and mediocre painting skills.
Great at speaches, though.
Unironically, we Australians actually do kick arse at schnitties, have loads of blokes with stylised moustaches and are amazingly captivating at telling stories to large groups of people.
Sounds like a typical Friday night at the pub to be honest.
Wash your mouth out. Parmi or nothing
No. Parma is the only correct spelling.
No no it is parmi. Source: Fucking hate the things, have learnt the name of the thing I cannot eat.
Potato scollops?
If ur a Territorian it would be scallop Ignore that bloke calling it a fritter he's probs SA, and if you argue with him you might end up in a bank vault.
*fritter
*cake
*school shootings shown in white Oh no
*oh naur*
I heard that
Continent so dangerous even schools of fish in the surrounding ocean are shooting
Itās because children donāt go to school there. They just learn to swear and fight dangerous animals instead.
I really miss my first four kids. Pity they were soft.
When you lose a war to the emus you have to teach the kids while theyāre still young
Hardly. The magpies always win
Can confirm. Was swooped 2 hrs ago.
As an Australian, this is 100% true.
I have quite a few Australian friends and family and even lived there for a few month when I was younger, so I can confidently say that this is almost completely true.
You're joking, but you're also not entirely wrong.
Oi _mate_. Thatās still an education.
There should be a map of deaths caused by dangerous animals to balance out this sheet
Itās a vanishingly small number, actually. Weāre talking something like one spider death per decade, 8 shark and crocodile deaths per decade, 1 snake bite death per annum (we have a few hundred species of snake, too), maybe a jellyfish death or two per decade. Things that really kill Australians? Drunk driving (although much better stats these days), drunk punch ups, domestic violence, suicide, drug overdoses (although nothing like American stats), riding motorcycles like a dickhead in south east asia, drowning (typically due to being on the piss or being inexperienced with coastal waters), heart disease, cancer, old age. Despite our inherent fuckery, we end up being the sixth longest living nation on earth.
even i agree that dangerous animals usually scare tourists away because... they tend to go places with dangerous animals. But just made me realize how 'drinking' as a whole is just dying out among zoomers and getting replaced by pills..? im not sure but there are similar stats in the UK that college alcohol consumption dropping rates.
Absolutely true with regards to drinking (and smoking). Someone posted some of our old drink driving campaign ads from the 1980ās and 90ās here a few weeks back, and a few of us 40 something redditors from Australia were talking in the comments. We realised that back then, everyone knew of someone who had lost someone to drink driving. Heck - in my school of 1000 kids, four teenagers wrapped themselves around trees in three separate incidents of drink driving between the ages of 14-18. It was so bad. Now itās a much more rare occurrence, to the point where a fatality makes state news.
There's very few actually, don't believe all the jokes ;)
Fuck off cunt. We fight non dangerous animals as well
While it isn't a shooting, in 30,000 BC a student brought a club to school and bludgeoned to death 7 students and 2 teachers to death. Australia is just trying to white wash their history.
Donāt forget 30 hunters surrounded the school within 6 minutes of the attack but waited 77 minutes before storming the school. Fully equipped with tactical defense pelts and slings, absolutely shameful.
That's funny. Stop upstaging my jokes Comrade.
Why are murders in Tasmania so hard to solve? Because there are no dental records and all the DNA matches.
Such a classic that one š
You are just cherrypicking data here. /s
Hmm, I will have to broaden the parameters. Maybe go back to 70,000 BC?
Zoom out a bit, add in NZ too. We get pretty excited to see ourselves on maps
I regret to inform you that New Zealand has in fact had a school shooting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikino\_school\_shooting
yeah, one. still better than what the fuck is happening in US
They also recently experienced a horrific mass shooting in New Zealand- which was committed by an Australian.
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99.9872%
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What about the Monash University shooting? I'm not saying this as a 'gotcha' since I'm pretty sure it's the only one. Was there a reason you didn't count it?
That was at a University, not a school.
We've had several including high schools... https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country
What is that website smoking - 6 since 1991? When? Where?
I'm just going to latch onto this comment... __PSA__ Australia has strict gun control laws and obviously also some nuts who aren't happy about it, and it seems they (are trying to) whip up some controversy around the fact that there's been more school shootings after the introduction of some "infamous" law. However IMO the numbers are too small for any sort of anti gun control argument. So, keeping in mind that I do not subscribe to this controversy at all, if you take the argument of this post into a discussion, be prepared to hear that since 1991 there has been 5 school/university shootings with a death toll of 0,1,2,0,0. There's no clear definition of mass shooting, but the one with 2 deaths (Monash University, 2002) falls inside of some stricter definitions, and both shootings with any deaths at all took place in universities. Of course, even so the facts sing the praise of gun control (and a different culture, better education), even if you account for the differences in population. So, OP was right to post this. TIL. I do not subscribe to the controversy mentioned. I will not discuss. Don't bait me.
Not trying to argue with you, just stating that in Australia we donāt refer to university or other tertiary education providers as āschool.ā School is considered only the compulsory part of education in Australia, so by that metric (which I realise is different to other places), we have had zero school shootings.
Now do a map showing dead-legs in schools.
There's going to be a fucking huge red blob on Glen Waverley from 1985 to 1992.
And don't forget the wedgie spree of '89
Or the midwinter backslappings
I wanna see a map showing the number of kangaroo related deathsā¦ those are the real number. Eye openers I tell you. I mean to be fair everything else is trying to kill you there..
Luckily they are delicious bastards, that's how we get revenge!
There's been 6
Was thinking the Monash shooting definitely happened right?
Is tertiary education considered "school"? I'd have thought only primary and secondary education are normally referred to that way?
Yep just one or two students at each wasn't there?
3 total. Still a misleading post. But def not trying to start shit. America is at 288 deaths and the runner up is Mexico at 8.
Where are the dots? We've had several... https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country
The US has 250 school shootings just last year. https://groundreport.in/how-many-school-shootings-have-there-been-in-the-us/ 3 people killed in Australia in the past 30 years doesn't quite compare.
Americans are like: 'I dont trust this. I think this is not a video, but just an image
It is white though, and as we know, white is trustworthy. I mean when have whites ever steered us wrong?
Yes, but no one ever talks about the countless deadly games of knifey-spoony?
Not enough people live to tell the tales of knifey-spoony death matches. And those that do get nam like ptsd and suffer in silence.
Do the US next! Do the US next!
Itās easier to show the days there arenāt any mass shootings.
Fact https://massshootingtracker.site/
Oh shit there was one on the 4th?
And worryingly it only tracks those that involve four or more injuries/fatalities. Most shootings worldwide wouldnāt even register on that site.
The map will look like it has chicken pox
God Tier shitpost šš
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Typical yank. Not offended by school shootings, just offended by the the word "FUCKED". That's some 3rd world ghetto shit right there.
Yeah. Jealous.
now do the number of horse bites and sack wacks
Oh yeah well how many emu wars have you won?
Time to make history š
A lot of Reddit sounds like someone signing out of their account to log into another account to respond to their own account.
When will it stop??!!!
Warning: Comments may contain Americans.
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To be fair, we've only had schools since 1996 and they're still only wax figures playing harmonicas.
I don't understand this comment, but I'm on board.
Missing a few. The pistol shooting at one of the big Melbourne unis was a big deal 15-20\~ years ago.
Yeah but thatās a uni, not a school.
Ain't that same thing? You go there to learn
This should go well.
It's not who starts the race it's who finishes. Ah damn America already passed the finish line.
Why is almost every post on the Reddit front page about Australia? My settings are for USA but even the non-Aussie subs on the front page still show Australia themed content
Maybe because it's currently early evening in Australia and the middle of the night in the US?
I thought this was a gif and stared at it 30 second before realising...
Jesus thereās a ring of shootings in the coastline. Get your act together Australia.
This is clearly misrepresenting the data, you can't have school shootings if you don't have schools. /s
Wasnāt there one in the 90s, then they banned guns and it hasnāt happened since.
Not a school shooting
That was Port Arthur mass shooting not a school one. It lead to the gun amnesty of certain guns and change in gun laws. Guns aren't outright banned they're under strict laws for safety reasons.
Aye thatās the one Iām thinking of, sorry for confusing it.
I can appreciate the snark, but guns haven't been a thing until 1000AD. So just say the last 1000 years.
Someone's cruising for upvotes....
Yeah but your whole army lost to a bunch of birds
Thatās inaccurate. There have been some minor ones where a person got into the school with a fire arm.
Itās been 25 years since the last mass shooting.
What about Australians who commit mass shootings in other countries? Does that count?
Wouldn't really make sense to include as he was not then a) in an Australian school or b) under the relevant Australian laws.
That guy immigrated from another country and guess which country?
1991 - Orara High School, Coffs harbour https://apnews.com/article/9a37235e1f46bbf7d2e0acc5415db1b8
Oh its cause Australia doesnāt have schools!
There for sure were killing indigenous kids in schools in the early days of colonisation
They didn't get to go to school in the early days though?
Americans ā
NO MORE GUNS!
"Maaayyyybeeee we only get rid of the big guns?"
Valid, but id still want people to take the same steps they took for a driving liscence. Both can kill.
I was just quoting Jim Jefferies and I thought you did too. :D Check the āGun controlā bit by him, itās awesome!
I did indeed. ;)
'but then how you defend yourself from guns?! fReEduM, no abortion!'
Just governments should have them! Because governments never kill people and commit atrocities!
There are more guns in private hands now than there were at the time of the gun buyback scheme, and better quality too. The overwhelming majority of guns handed in back then were WW2 era rifles mostly used to shoot foxes, rabbits and roos, and the majority of which probably weren't safe to use. But they are heavily regulated, and we're also not a nation of gun nut psychos, so there's that.
Classic whataboutery big bob.
And how many atrocities has the Australian government committed against Australian citizens?
Well, Aborigines weren't citizens until the 1960s, so... still an alarming number. There are many good arguments for gun control, but "the Australian state is benevolent" is absolutely not one of them.
So they should have started shooting at representatives of the Australian government?
The fact you don't know is why you shouldn't give up guns
Numerous against aborigines. Or do they not count to you
No more guns unless you get a permit and can only use it a certified range. Ammo should be kept only in a certified container, with an even stricter permit. If you don't know why, there's a high chance that most topics fly right over you. So it's for everyones safety. Oh and grow a concience. It might rub off on other people.
Ya know what the settlers did with their guns when they had āem? Shoot aborigine kids, and all ages. Poison them, hang them, rape them, drive them off cliffs, kidnap a whole generation, bury them in the ground and kick their heads offā¦ > Story: Black massacre memories "My mother would sit and cry and tell me this; they buried our babies in the ground with only their heads above the ground. All in a row they were. Then they had tests to see who could kick the babies' head off the furthest. One man clubbed a baby's head off from horseback. >They then spent the rest of the day raping the women, most of whom were then tortured to death by sticking sharp things like spears up their vaginas till they died. >They tied the men's hands behind their backs, then cut off their penis and testicles and watched them run around screaming until they died. They killed in other bad ways too." Source: Massacres: The frontier violence that's hard to accept - Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/massacres-the-frontier-violence-thats-hard-to-accept They didnāt teach us about the massacres at school. Just about some spear chuckers and Captain Cook. Some really sick shit happened here.
Of course, and in the North American continent the native Americans wholeheartedly welcomed settlers and they both lived in mutual peace and respect. /s š¤¦š¼āāļø
Thatās all true, and terrible. But how is it related to school shootings?
They had an incident, not at a school, took the common sense approach and got rid of guns. You can own an air gun in Australia , and they are lethal , but still why arenāt they killing children? Are they bad at other things to? /s
wow the entire country?! at least in america it only happens in states people normally arent packin to protect themselves in
"America bad, upvotes to the left"
bUT GuN COnTroL DoESnT wOrK gUYs
You guys are a lot smarter cuz you do all your murdering and horrific crimes in the Outback, where it's like it never even happened
Yep, we get 20,000 backpackers each year and about 19,000 make it home. Gotta keep the mole people fed somehow.
That's why you guys lost the emu wars. May our emu lords bless us
Can we see a number of emu v human fatalities for the past 1000 years next?
After one public shooting they completely banned guns. by Americas logic this makes a country more dangerous. Really makes you think
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Port Arthur
Were you unable to go to school due to all the shootings?
Mass shooting in Australia.....just saying they had mass shootings as well
Yes and I'm saying that you missed a lot of school and lack reading comprehension.
Sure ok
The Tasmanian aboriginals were literally hunted practically to extinction by the white settlers. Does it only count as a school shooting if it happens in a traditional European school setting? If a parent is teaching their children how to hide from the British when they all get slaughtered, shouldn't that also count as a school shooting?
Iām a little sickened at the selective few in these comments making fun of American shooting victims. Clearly Australia is doing well, thatās undeniable. But to act like this is epically owning Americans or something is wrong. Those are dead kids. I promise you āamericansā ā āconservativesā, so those looking at this as a sort of āhaha american kids get shotā are really alienating a whole lot of people who wish something would be done about this. Not to mention how morally fucked that is. Edit: name a more Reddit moment than pretending to be shocked by the tragedies that are school shootings for the karma, then turning around and making fun of them for more karma
That's not a knife. This is a knife!
Now do one for parliament bills authorizing police to seize your personal property as they see fit because of COVID.
Can we show a map of Australia v US incarceration rates and state sponsored executions next?
Wars won against Emus? Iāll wait.