Australia's flamboyant, aggrandising intelligentsia are most proud of the average Aussies inalienable right to be a victim.

Nearly all casualties of security and police would be alive or uninjured if they simply obeyed the direction of security and police officers. Just as the recent criminal (deceased) did not do at Parramatta Westfield.

Whether it be bus or cab drivers, nurses, ambulance drivers, firemen or teachers who are regularly subjected to abuse, both psychological & physical; deluded Australian society does not possess the grit to acknowledge that 50 years of progressive views on discipline and social mores have created an incubator for anti-social behaviour to flourish. This is evidenced by the numbers of security personnel that are required so that citizens can safely go about their daily lives.

Always a big winner with our lame stream media when laws are passed which specifically focus upon the law abider rather than the law breaker.

Security guards carry out a role that has been reduced to little more than bluff by our social elite the commissars of chaos.

There are various types of people which work in the security industry.
I have previously worked as a licenced crowd controler at a number of licenced drinkng venues, where I have worked as part of a team at most and occassionaly alone at others.
In the crowd control industry there are 2 main types of security workers being as follows;
1. Crowd controllers and,
2. Bouncers

The difference between the types of crowd controllers is crowd controlers difuse a situation before it gets out of hand, this limits the risk or harm to anyone including the public, themselves, and the licencees and staff of the venue. Whereas bouncers work with an ego attitude and enjoy proving that they can use violence to stop anyone as they believe they have a special power with a licence to inflict harm on anyone they want to while working, this puts not only themselves at risk but also members of the public, the staff and lincencees to.

In the 5 or so years I worked as a crowd controller, there was only 3 situtations which escalated to a violent end at the venues on the shifts that I worke at

I'm only in my forties so I didn't get to live through Australia's golden age. The 1950's when there was no crime, everyone had a job. Everyone went to church and said please and thankyou. Women knew their place and no one had sex before marriage. The sky was always blue.

Wow, how did this get through? Full of grammatical errors and poor phrasing.

Not to mention the airbrushing of the fact that a significant proportion of those that work in the industry do so because they enjoy lording it over others with physical force when possible and are unemployable elsewhere - the "bouncers" Gypsy described. I am a doctor and to be fair, also see excellent security staff in the setting of dealing with aggressive and violent patients and sometimes relatives.

Unhappily though, I see plenty of the first type when out socialising. It is true there are dimwit drinkers out there that go looking for trouble, but there are ways and means of dealing with them that don't involve hitting first and asking questions later.

The reason David Hookes's death struck a chord with many is the pattern of behaviour that accompanied it, the fact that the accused had a solid background in competitive boxing, and the lack of any witnesses to his account that Hookes threw the first punch. The case is but one of many where drunken patrons, no doubt giving lip, have been on the wrong end of a bouncer's first.