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Originally Posted by AlienQ
So what your gun culture do? They can't own em, they can't sell em. What they do? Talk about guns now?
How do you people hunt? Use a bow and arrow or an aborgini blow gun with poison? Or the old fasioned way using a club?
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You hunt with a rifle. You got to the shooting range to shoot pistols. I can go out and get a rifle to hunt with if I want. But we really don't have a hunting culture in Australia... not like the states anyways. You won't see a politician wearing an orange vest shootin' roo's to show how "tough" he is lol. Only 5% of people live in the bush where you can actually find something to hunt. So whilst it's bigger there, it's not really part of our overall culture and although we do tend to concentrate on the outback in movies it's romanticising things. The overwhelming majority of people live in urban areas and don't really give a shit. They don't want handguns or ak47's.
That said I did grow up around shotguns and rifles because my grandfather was a farmer and i've shot my share of birds on the farm with an air rifle lol. Thats the difference.. It's more one of need.. If you're a farmer theres no problems at all having a rifle. It's just about the lack of need for a nutjob in a hirise in sydney to have 3 M-16's and a sniper rifle. Once again.. we've never had that kind of gun culture. I've NEVER seen a handgun.