You just can't resist, can you?

Severin, I am loving the collective nouns! Lol.

How about:
A sh#tload of shooters.
A gaggle of gunners.

A bit of humorous relief sure beats all the aggressive huffing and puffing from the members and supporters of the aggrieved gun lobby.

Imagine what they could achieve if they put their collective might behind a worthy cause?

You're right, suze. My suggestion: an arsenal of arseholes :)

That is so pathetic, profanity as well. You might as well be holding your hands over your ears going "La, la, la, la", excepting for your churlish intent to disrupt the thread for others.

Come the revolution there will be your view and no others, eh CJ?

Cornflower there is nothing pathetic about having an opposite view to others.
If you don't like it, you can always put your hands over your eyes :-)

Yes, well. Sexualised hate speech is a large component of anti-shooter prejudice - funny how its legitimate when disempowering what they imagine to be poorer males.

A choice instance was the taxpayer-funded activist (now a professor) in a thread at Andrew Leigh's blog who referred to shooters going all 'priapic' over the Coroner finding that the NCGC and 'A Current Affair' showed a man the way to blow his own head off just before Port Arthur.

We often see opponents licking their lips over a claim that guns are Freudian 'compensation' for genital inadequacy. Freud has been exposed as a fraud who lied in his 1890s papers claiming treatment successes, and who created a system of circular thinking that for sixty years corrupted public and private rationality. Good enough for their sneers though!

So fellow sportspeople, you should be secure in the knowledge that the sneering of the opposition is really about displaying their own moral superiority - hey, its a huge shot of endorphins without even going for a jog, and its much better than free if you impose huge costs on others! Schadenfreude is not a word in English, but its still true that in contests of self-righteousness it isn't enough to win - others must lose.