they think that I ' m gaining weight because of the tricky situation at my real mums houseWhat situation ? I ask because I am wondering if it ' s possible for you to talk to your mom about how they ' re treating you . If it isn ' t , can you talk to someone at school ? I am so sorry they are mistreating you , it clearly doesn ' t help to pick on someone and can often times make it worse . <| sep |> Pretty sure it was a federal mandate so I ' m not sure why you ' d think it only effected two areas . While Australia is certainly not the US I feel like it ' s an interesting and quite modern case study of taking weapons away from the public . Weapons have been taken from the public at lots of times throughout history like when the samurai were disbanded in Japan . At the time everyone in Japan said It could never work , swords and samurai are a core part of our culture and it ' s so easy to make swords , yet the sword ban was hugely effective .