"It's not the United States. It's some other planet: different people, different everything ... but in the real world, with human beings, it's not going to work and gun control isn't going to work. "
Okay speaking as an Australian that is
incredibly offensive, it was like he went out of his way to word in the most obnoxious way possible. He's correct that Australia and America are different places with different cultures, but the
way he said it was very very dickish. Despite the commonalities between Australia and America (we both speak English, we're both former British colonies, etc) there are
vast differences between our cultures, and not just how we view firearms, but let's limit ourselves to guns.
America has a
much more violent history then Australia, they needed a rebellion/revolution to get their independence, we got ours via peaceful measures, they had a civil war with hundreds of thousands dead, the closest we came was the Eureka stockade with a few hundred people. Both nations had issues with their native populations and the treatment of such, but the American native population was much larger and much more likely to fight back.
In Australia the firearm is something that was used for hunting, sport, and when we went to war,
overseas, in America it was/is the symbol of how they won their nation, their civil war, and personal protection during their expansionist phase.
So that viewpoint needs to be considered.
All that being said, valid points aside, the guy can go suck a rancid lemon, because he obviously knows jack-shit out my country. Calling us 'racist'? Get rooted. All nations have issues with racism, and I wont deny we've got some, but the 'most racist'? No way, I don't see the KKK, Blackshirts, lynchings, slavery, or any thing even remotely like that in our recent history.
We had One Nation (ultra conservative party) that won a few seats in the 90s... you know what happened to them? They got
destroyed in the polls, unlike the incredibly racist parties in the UK/US that hold positions of power. We had the Cronulla Riots, which were nothing compared to the UK Riots, or any of the crap that happens in the states
all the damn time. I suppose you could bring up that 'blackface' bollocks from a few years ago, or maybe that KFC chicken advert... but oh wait THEY WEREN'T RACIST, they were AMERICANS putting THEIR cultural hangups on countries that DON'T have anything like that.
Seriously I get so utterly sick of this Americo-centric bollocks.