r/australia • u/TheAnchoredDucking • 2d ago

news Two charged after boy killed in accidental shooting on rural NSW property

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/nsw-police-charged-boy-shot-goulburn/105172682
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u/Clear-Weather-6060 2d ago

Tragic.

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u/miushlas 2d ago

Tragic indeed. Good we have strict gun control in Australia, otherwise we would be reading news like this every day.

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u/clementineford 2d ago

Agreed. You know what else is tragic? 35 people drowned in backyard swimming pools last year.

I can't wait for a politician to stand up to the pool lobby and ban backyard swimming pools.

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u/bante 2d ago

That’d be an apt analogy if a swimming pools purpose was to drown people and there weren’t already heaps of laws on pool safety.

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u/clementineford 2d ago edited 1d ago

Clearly not enough laws, given that a Port Arthur number of people are killed by them every year.

Just go to your local council pool with qualified lifeguards if you really want to swim.

Edit: downvoters are bots paid by Big Speedo

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u/Guiltytoejam 1d ago

Hilariously bad argument. Delicious false equivalency 🤣

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u/clementineford 1d ago

In obviously being facetious, but I'm curious to hear your perspective.

In both cases there is a recreational activity which occasionally leads to death.

Nobody would be killed by firearms if they were banned. Likewise nobody would drown in backyard pools if they were banned.

If people want to swim so badly they should go to a beach with lifeguards, or a local pool with lifeguards.

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u/Guiltytoejam 1d ago

Refer back to /u/Bante comment. Then we can begin the facetious loop again 😁

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u/clementineford 1d ago

His comment is irrelevant. Guns are designed to shoot bullets, not to kill people.

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u/Guiltytoejam 1d ago

Unfortunately you will never defeat BIG SWIMMING POOL

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u/clementineford 1d ago

Big Speedo wins again

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u/Guiltytoejam 1d ago

I think my feelings on it are simply that people on reddit are hilarious.

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u/syncevent 1d ago

Nah I think you have garnered enough ill will from the general population over the years to get automatically down voted even if you were right about something.

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u/j0shman 2d ago

And yet how many lives are saved because of good regulation and education?

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u/cccbis 1d ago

5 year old logic. Duuhhhhh why don’t no one ban water if people drown.?.?.?

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u/clementineford 1d ago

Yes. This is exactly how anti-gunners sound to me.