I’d rather be confronted by a knife wielding youth than a gun-toting youth, as bad as that is.
Chances of survival are greater.

Don't you just hate the chafing restrictions of Australia? Inconclusive family friction. Knowing the kids will still be alive when school finishes. Worshipping with no security guard. Workplaces where the biff rarely goes beyond heated voices. Being able to risk calling the cops. Opening your front door, in the enslaved condition of not packing heat. Knocking on other doors, without the adrenalin rush of Russian roulette.

Given a free choice, there can be no doubt Aussies will arm themselves to the teeth. Even with a specialised Ministry of Death, it will take us a while, to arm up to American levels. Silly old me, "nervous around guns", never fired a shot. Among all my wider family and friends, exactly one owns a gun.

Take two:

God..I just remembered something I neglected to mention above. I disarmed two youths with knives a month ago; both of them I’ve been acquainted with fir some time now. That now makes four knife attacks I’ve experienced in recent years.

I’m amazed how knife attacks have become normalised in my life; stop the stressing over guns.

Guns or no guns, Australians are not as murderous and mentally disturbed as Americans and other inferior cultures.

Why are all gun related killings instantly thrown into the ‘Murder’ basket ? How many of those killed with any weapon weren’t murdered but killed because of their instigating ?

Agree with most of this, David. All we ever needed was a proscribed register!

Outlaw guns and the only people with guns will be (wrong hands) outlaws.

And given they're tools of trade for Farmers, why don't we register all tools of trade and make the owners pay an annual licence fee. Seems fair to me.
Alan B.