Crazy Americans

aussietraveller · Guru

Crazy Americans

Bushpie · Guru

Scary numbers there AT, like you I am glad to be an Aussie............but I am sceptical about the future.

Although we spent five weeks in USA and did not see anything remotely like a gun..........must have visited the right spots

petengail · Guru

We were camped in Southern Florida one time. 20 odd years ago, when we were living and working in the States, and at happy hour the topic of "who was carrying" came up. Out of the 16 couples at happy hour, management and I were the only couple who were not travelling with some sort of gun

D and D · Guru

www.youtube.com/watch; www.youtube.com/watch

Felicia · Guru

D and D,

Really interesting comedian, made so much sense even the American audience got the point and didn't argue. Maybe Obama should have employed him.

Lynda

HunnyBunny · Senior Member

I am married to one of your so called crazy Americans. We lived in Florida for a number of years! Florida is a "right to carry State" Not all States in the U.S.A have the same firearm laws, so unless you are in those States, you won't see the guns. In Florida, as in all " right to carry States" you must not conceal your firearm, this is why you will see the holsters carried. Unlike Australia, America has always had guns & most people do! Australia is a completely different culture so I sure would not like to see the same here. But having said that I have grown up in the country where most rural people do have guns. But because they have been a part of the landscape there is a respect for firearms that unless you have lived you would never understand. It is a sad fact that people die all over the world every day from the use of firearms. In Australia two of our biggest killers are drugs & alcohol. I would have to think that a lot more people die from alcohol & drug abuse then what die from guns. One thing I know for sure, if you are living in a right to carry State in the good old U.S.of.A you sure have a lot less chance of having someone crawl into your window at night to rape your sleeping Daughters.

elliemike · Guru

Just looking up the Rape statistics for Florida here they are saying 1 in 6 women have reported being raped. This is in a state where the right to carry a gun should keep this figure low.

I am interested to see how the figures add up in countries that don't have such lenient Gun Laws.

If it is one in six women in Florida, where the availability of personal firearm protection theoretically should keep this statistic low. What is the rate here in Australia, the UK or NZ. Where firearms are more controlled and not that available. Are more women raped in these places because of the lack of guns !

Come on you statistically minded mathematicians can you come up with the official statistics for a comparison.

Prevalence According to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2010*

(1): Women: 1,266,000 women in Florida have been raped at some point in their lives. Thats 17% or 1 in 6 women in Florida.

41.8% of women, or 3,111,000, in Florida have been victimized by sexual violence other than rape.

https://www.fcasv.org/sites/default/files/Sex_Assault_FS.pdf

HunnyBunny · Senior Member

If you want to research stats you might want to look at this one. You don't have to look too far these days to find the horrors of crime. Try your own backyard, you might be shocked to see that things are not quite as rosie here as you would like to think. I wonder how many more women in the States would have been raped or murdered if they didn't have the right to protect themselves.
www.news.com.au/national/australias-sexual-assault-shame-one-in-six-women-a-victim-putting-australia-way-above-world-average/story-fncynjr2-1226825094300

aussietraveller · Guru

Protection for Women has to always be a high priority and so it should be, otherwise we will see many more people carrying guns just so they can protect themselves from people carrying guns, more children may well be accidently shot by mums,dads,sisters or brothers gun although they are very safe if they visit my family as none of us own a gun and we all respect women, men and children.

Statistics can be used to say what ever you want them too but pictures of a five year old little girl crying because her father is making her fire her own rifle certainly says it all for me.

I dont believe all Americans are gun crazy but there are certainly a significant number who believe in their right to bear arms

-- Edited by aussietraveller on Wednesday 9th of March 2016 10:06:40 AM