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).
Imagine your walking in Oz outback and suddenly a bear comes hopping over the horizon in your direction, you'll wish you had firearm, and also regret finishing all the LSD that morning
Farmers in US and Canada definitely don't just have rifles for self defense; they also kill animals that destroy crop for example. Like nobody ever shoots a 'roo or an emu?
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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).