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Exclusive: Family calls for inquest, saying Wilkinson visited police ‘almost every day’ before she was murdered by her husband in 2021

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[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Agreed, support 2A and depend upon yourself.

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

The article is about things that happened in Australia 🙄

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly, I bet her loved ones wished she had the right tools to defend herself. Lord knows the police won’t.

[-] threeduck@aussie.zone 48 points 1 year ago

Eew keep your gross American opinions to yourself.

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

No, the 1A means I can share it as much as I want. Freedom of Speech is awesome!

[-] muddybulldog@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

The irony of you tooting about 1A, celebrating your “right” to free speech, based on your ability to post something in a forum where 1A doesn’t apply.

It’s delicious.

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 year ago

And we have the freedom to call you out on your American bullshit (that doesn't even work in the US).

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[-] Sacha@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

You make it sound like thats unique to the US and a foreign concept to the rest of the world.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean you won't face consequences of what you say.

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[-] hark@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The first amendment applies only to government action on your speech. It has nothing to do with your speech on a private website and it doesn't apply outside of the US (even if you'd like to think the US owns the world).

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 year ago

The supposed tool to defend herself with would have been used to kill her even sooner.

If you need a gun in order to feel safe in your country, you live in a shithole.

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 year ago

Yeah! Because domestic abuse is totally not a thing in america. Oh wait.

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[-] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

And Australians have had massive incursions on their gun rights since 2020.

[-] PeterLG@theblower.au 32 points 1 year ago

@GhostedIC

That's because we don't see using a gun as a right, just like we don’t see driving a car as a right. They're both activities that are priviledges earned through training and licensing.

@frostysauce

[-] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

And as a result the number of school shootings is much, much lower than in the US.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

If only you supported education, more specifically geography, as much as you pretend to support the Constitution.

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

No I fully support the constitution and wish the amendments were universal human rights, not just American rights.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

A populace with the ability to kill anyone with the press of a button isn't free or safe - it's fearful, which is a dangerous thing to be when you have a gun.

Gestures lazily at gun deaths per capita compared to the rest of the developed world.

There's also the 13th - Slavery is fine so long as we criminalise you. Why the fuck would you want this, exactly?

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

The deification of the founding fathers - a bunch of slave owners and the like is deeply weird. They had some good ideas... and some atrocious ones.

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So you want more deaths in the world?

Well I don't.

Any country where you need a gun in order to feel safe is a shithole.

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[-] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

wish the amendments were universal human rights, not just American rights.

No thanks. You can keep your constitution. Ours isn't perfect either, but I prefer it to yours.

[-] Ixoid@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Fuck off. Australia doesn't want or need your freedum bullshit.

[-] TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those of you who automatically dismiss self-defense out of hand: what is your method of self-defense, and why wasn't it used in 1930s Germany?

[-] Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] tiltinyall@lemmy.org 2 points 1 year ago

Where the bald eagle swoops in and drops a loaded gun into her hands, yah.

[-] tiltinyall@lemmy.org 21 points 1 year ago

Something something, hammer and nail

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I love the duality of Lemmy users:

“Ohhh nooos we can’t depend upon the police!”

“Ohh nooos how dare someone suggest taking agency for their own safety ! 2A is baddd mmmkay!”

[-] TheMonkeyLord@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 year ago

I think the overall sentiment is removing violence as an option for everyone, cops, citizens, and criminals alike

Guns as a thing in this world inherently create death and loss as a result of their existence, not in spite of it

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[-] tiltinyall@lemmy.org 3 points 1 year ago

Bark on about how your rights are being taken, maybe when you find your oppressor we can throw a gun in the mix and see who comes out victorious. Waah waah, the powers are holding me down. Let's go get the state to allow more unrestricted access to fire arms, as that's everyone's solution to everything.

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[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago
[-] tiltinyall@lemmy.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let's just set up a standoff where the husband, wife and one police officer all hold guns to each other. It'll all sort itself out when the dust settles like the wild west. See I can come up with stupid politically motivated solutions too. Stupid, to say a gun will "fix" a situation involving domestic abuse. You hear that 2A'ers, THAT'S STUPID!

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You did the ol’Reddit switcharoo. I gotta say it takes a special kind of animal to do that on a thread dealing with a domestic abuse victim.

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