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

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Eew keep your gross American opinions to yourself.

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

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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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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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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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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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Oh look, an Australian denying reality in favor of ideology. Shocking.

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US has the highest domestic violence / death by gun rates in the entire world.

There is no such thing as good guy with a gun. Look at the victory parade just last week. People with guns everywhere just ran away for their lives instead of shooting the bad guy with the gun they love boasting about.

The worst mass shooting in Canada in history was 12 dead. What’s the worst death toll in the US?

The last school shooting in Canada was about 20 years ago, when was the last one in the US?

If this Australian couple had guns, 90% chance she would have been shot and killed by beer husband instead of whatever means he used. The police should have done their jobs.

That is the reality.

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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.

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

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Domestic abuse is a problem in the US. I believe in empowering victims to have every resource available to escape and defend themselves from abusers.

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