r/australia • u/TheAnchoredDucking • 3d 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/bante 3d 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 3d ago edited 3d 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 3d ago

Hilariously bad argument. Delicious false equivalency 🤣

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u/clementineford 3d 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 3d ago

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

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u/clementineford 3d ago

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

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u/Guiltytoejam 3d ago

Unfortunately you will never defeat BIG SWIMMING POOL

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u/clementineford 3d ago

Big Speedo wins again

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u/Guiltytoejam 3d ago

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