Public debate about guns not allowed
Two Australian sportsmen were punished for being pictured with guns, even though they were doing nothing illegal
The Australian swim duo who posed with guns at a California shooting range and posted the photo to Facebook will be forced to leave the Olympics after the swimming competition ends on the second Sunday of the Summer Games. Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk are also banned from using social media for a month-long period beginning July 16 as part of the punishment stemming from the controversial photograph.
He and Monk were at the center of a firestorm last week after posting the gun photo to Facebook. The picture was quickly taken down at the request of the Australian Olympic Committee, but that wasn't enough to avoid any fallout. The AOC's decision was announced Saturday.
The swimmers thought it would be fun to take the photo. The issue, he said, was posting it to Facebook. The CEO of Swimming Australia agreed.
"They showed poor judgement in posting what we saw as inappropriate photos, in which they appear to be skylarking with guns while in the U.S. last week," said Kevin Neil. "While what the boys did was not illegal, posting the photos on social networks encourages public debate, and that debate can be seen to have a negative impact on the image of the sport and their own image."
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Hmm. So encouraging public debate is now a punishable offence? Note to self: Never, ever go to Australia. As bad as it may seem here in the good ol' USA, I love it here, I will stay here, and I will fight to the death to protect my Constitutional rights.
This is too pathetic for comment.
Look what happens to a nation when its taken over by the pansies
"Look what happens to a nation when its taken over by the pansies"
Doesn't JJR live down there?
It is funny when the most obnoxious and obscene things are said about conservatives the excuse given by liberals is that we are trying to encourage discussion about the topic.
Apparently encouraging discussion is not good on what is considered a conservative topic - guns.
Other than having their fingers on the triggers and the left guy (in the picture) possibly pointing the revolver at the right guy there is nothing controversial about this. If they had been in Las Vegas they could have posed with real machine guns. Totally pathetic that the Olympic organizers cave to idiots.
MDH
Hoplophobia pure and simple.
MCALLEN, Texas – A drunk 17-year-old died in southern Texas after a bullet he shot at a butane tank ricocheted back and hit him in the head. ...
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/13/drunken-teen-killed-by-own-ricocheted-gunshot-in-southern-texas
LOL
the left never surprises me with their fascist actions
Those poor, unsupervised children being so vilely manipulated by the gun culture of America! How could Australia even conscience sending them to LA without their nannies to keep them from being corrupted!
posting the photos on social networks encourages public debate...
... a debate the pro-gun crowd is steadily losing, hence the punishment. "Whatever you do, don't mention the war!"
A fear of firearms is a sign of sexual dysfunction, as is a fear of all weapons (swords, knives). While an obsession in the opposite direction also signifies the same, the fact that even an image frightens the Aussies (or at least those not actually on their swim team), shows they are truly sliding down a twisted hill into empty sack eunuch territory. It is good to see that at least the Aussie swimmers have hair on their balls.. well.. they would if we weren’t fairly sure they just shave them for a few micro seconds of speed.
I doubt it's sexual transference or anything remotely that abstruse; rather, they simply want total control and guns are an obstacle to that objective, a big one, and so must be demonized and - as in this story - presented as "beyond the pale."
In one sense, their demonization of guns is a plus: they've effectively disarmed themselves as a result - at least, their useful idiots have, which is the majority of them - and that alone is cause for a big huzzah from anyone who's read their history. Just don't let them disarm you, too, and you get the best of both worlds.
/just an opinion
Aren't the Aussies subjects to the Crown ? I'm so glad I'm a citizen of a republic .
ISHGEBOR
"Political correctness is a far greater threat to our freedom and liberty than is terrorism..."
Don't they have Olympic competitions that use guns? (Eric and Sandra Uptagrafft from my home state of Alabama are participating in rifling competitions, I believe)
I don't understand the logic here.
Crocidyle dun dee had his Big Knife confiscated
Guns don't kill people. Bullets do.
GUNS DONT KILL PEOPLE DO
People WITH guns kill more easily!
1. GUNS DONT KILL PEOPLE DO
VS
2. People WITH guns kill more easily!
Two competing hypotheses, so let's go to the evidence.
In the past, where the people were disarmed, govts could and did carry out massive pogroms. In cases where the people - or selective, disfavoured groups, as the case may be - were disarmed, the death tolls were hundreds of times worse than where those people could defend themselves.
But does this come at the expense of higher street-level violence? Not really: e.g. the death rate from guns in old Kansas City, in its day the prototypical wild west, was lower than in gun-controlled D.C. today.
Moreoever, in other cases, such as Switzerland, the death rate from guns is close to nil, despite widespread ownership.
One can only mistakenly presume that guns are a cause (rather than an occasional correlate) of higher-level street violence by eschewing the scientific approach in favour of cherry-picking anecdotal evidence.
When theory and reality disagree, it's not reality that's wrong.
You better re-check the statistics re Swiss gun-related deaths. (As you may know, widespread ownership is due to most males being in the reserve army and issued a weapon.)
Not sure whether it represents the Confederate or Scottish Saltire..
Seriously good work on that Fellas.
There's symbology enough there to offend every pious wanker who loves to wallow and whine in their own pained existence.
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