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Post a Furball (an animal, not a coughed up ball of hair)

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OK, I just had to.

This is a Quokka. They only live on a small island off the coast of Western Australia - Rotnest Island. They're a small relative of kangaroos and they evolved with no natural predators and never knew that they're supposed to be afraid of humans or other animals.

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They look soooo enthusiastic and happy!
 
Poppy98 said:
Wait, are Australians big on guns?
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It's just an old saying, or sometimes used when one of your friends is being an idiot.

No, not at all. We introduced a lot of restrictions and a nation wide registry and licensing system and banned several types of guns. Guns weren't banned outright but very few Aussies own one. They're also not something readily available, when you buy a gun the gun is withheld for 30 days while police check that you are licensed for that type of firearm and if you have the regulatory gun safe required and they do a nationwide criminal check on you as well.

You also have to have a reason for having a firearm in order to get a license, member of a sorting club, farming property owner, etc. Self Defence is not an allowable reason to own a gun here and suggesting it would likely trigger a deeper criminal check.

That said though, those laws were introduced nearly 30 years ago and have been slightly watered down here and there by all the different states over the years. After Bondi Beach the other week that's all being reviewed and tightened up again now.
 
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It's just an old saying, or sometimes used when one of your friends is being an idiot.

No, not at all. We introduced a lot of restrictions and a nation wide registry and licensing system and banned several types of guns. Guns weren't banned outright but very few Aussies own one. They're also not something readily available, when you buy a gun the gun is withheld for 30 days while police check that you are licensed for that type of firearm and if you have the regulatory gun safe required and they do a nationwide criminal check on you as well.

You also have to have a reason for having a firearm in order to get a license, member of a sorting club, farming property owner, etc. Self Defence is not an allowable reason to own a gun here and suggesting it would likely trigger a deeper criminal check.

That said though, those laws were introduced nearly 30 years ago and have been slightly watered down here and there by all the different states over the years. After Bondi Beach the other week that's all being reviewed and tightened up again now.
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Oh, that fits more with my prior understansing, but idk how much land you guys have and clearly you hunt.


The US is an ex-territory country (amongst other things) with an overtly corrupt government, an assumption of governmental corruption in our Constitution, a bunch of vast farmland and a huge non-conscription military, so our country is possibly weird.

And we don't have koalas. (Tangent, but also we need some koalas or at least Pandas.)
 
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my svelte house panther flooff
 

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Poppy98 said:
Oh, that fits more with my prior understansing, but idk how much land you guys have and clearly you hunt.
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Yes, we hunt. Both recreational and professional hunting are valid reasons for owning a gun but there's still conditions about where and when you can carry a gun. Those conditions usually only come in to play if police happen to notice they've got a gun for some reason, then the cops will want to know exactly where they've driven to and from and where they're headed.

Professional shooters are often hired by our wildlife departments and by groups of farmers to cut back the numbers of pests when they start getting out of hand. Kangaroos are also hunted for food and you can buy the meat in supermarkets. There's very strict animal welfare rules for professional hunters though, every shot must be a head shot and occasionally inspectors randomly check their kills and issue fines for sloppy work.

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And we don't have koalas. (Tangent, but also we need some koalas or at least Pandas.)
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A characteristic that koalas share with pandas - they're both specialist eaters. There's only a few very specific types of gum leaves that koalas can eat and they're unable to digest anything else. I think that's why they're dying out around Sydney, soot and pollution settling on all the tree leaves, in other parts of the country their numbers get out of control from time to time and they need to be culled.
 
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