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Hoplophobia – our national illness : Comments
By David Leyonhjelm, published 12/2/2026Is Australia’s gun policy driven by facts or emotion? Three decades after Port Arthur, fear still shapes laws that facts struggle to penetrate.
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Why people bulls.t and try to prove their superiority with other than plain language is extremely irritating.
And it doesn't take three pages to explain that guns in Australia are the least of our worries. Guns are inanimate items, not dangerous unless in the hands of dangerous people. And, apart from the likes of a Tasmanian lunatic, the only dangerous people in Australia are religious nutters who are beneficiaries of our reckless mass immigration policy.