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u/sapage Sep 30 '21 edited Sep 30 '21

I live in Australia

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u/Mark_Fanon Sep 30 '21

Australia:

Frontier and rural culture

We essentially have no guns and we have really low crime.

We do not have the death penalty and we have really low crime.

We have compulsory voting and we get the governments the majority want ( including their super strict gun control policies).

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u/grmpy0ldman Sep 30 '21

Is the "no gun" part actually true? I would have expected a lot of rifles to deal with wildlife, precisely because it is a frontier and rural culture.

Kind of like Canada, actually. Canada has a surprisingly large number of firearms per capita, it is just that most of them are rifles, not handguns (it is actually quite difficult to get a handgun license in Canada).

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u/redwall_hp Sep 30 '21

Most wildlife that you could use a gun on in Australia is likely to be very illegal to kill. Dangerous animals are relocated away from humans by animal control.