Tony Abbott, the Liberal Party, and Gun Fanatics
Gun Control Australia

The Liberal Party’s website has come up with one of the most horrific and dangerous ideas of the last 100 years – to allow hundreds of thousands of Australians to carry concealed loaded pistols and revolvers.

We condemn Tony Abbott, his Attorney-General George Brandis, and the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Justice and Public Security, Mr Jason Wood MP.

If ever a subservient attitude to the gun fanatics in our society has been envisaged, it is the Liberal Party’s sickening and shameful idea of allowing loaded pistols and revolvers to proliferate in our homes, our streets, our trams and trains, and our workplaces.

This socially irresponsible idea of concealed carrying of handguns is being supported by the member for Latrobe, Jason Wood. This man holds a position of such influence in the Liberal Party that he has responsibility for advising that party on ‘Justice and Public Security’. If ever the public had something to fear from an Abbott government it would be the presence of people like Mr Wood, who apparently support the ideas of gun fanatics.

Gun Control Australia Inc has written to Mr Abbott, Mr Brandis and Mr Wood, complaining about the two entries that have appeared on the Liberal Party’s website, where, in one case the major weakening of our gun laws has been suggested, and in the second case, where allowing people to carry concealed loaded pistols and revolvers has been proposed.

We cannot trust Mr Abbott and the Liberal Party to protect the Australian public by giving support to the existing gun laws – which to John Howard’s credit was strongly supported by the pre-Abbott Liberal Party.

Wake up Australians, the Liberal Party is paving the way to destroy our gun laws and turn this country into a gun mayhem like America, which has fifteen times the yearly rate of gun homicide as Australia.

What a heartbreak that would be to the families and loved ones of the hundreds of Australians who were murdered in gun massacres by legal gun owners.

http://guncontrol.org.au/

At least they are more accurate than those ruddy paintball guns....sheesh.

Ah, so all those tough thugs and intentional murderers are just waiting patiently for the law to relax...

My grandmother died of a heart-attack at the age of 70 after struggling with a criminal who tried to snatch her bag. How many other grandmothers could be saved have she had a loaded pistol and shot that fella.

Can you give us a link to the Liberal policy ChrisPer? This thread and your site are the only mentions of it that I can see with a quick Google.

I approve of gun control, but it has to be a common sense based control unlike the academic knee jerk reaction gun law which was one of John Howard's not so sensible policies.
No one "needs" a 45 or other big calibre gun for shooting at paper targets. A .22 is ample for a sport kind of shooting. Someone who shoots to protect crops or feed obviously needs a more powerful gun. Then there are those who frequent places where an encounter with a wild bull, a boar or even a crocodile attack it very likely then they too need at least a .357 magnum. What I'm getting at is that some cheap kick seeker in the suburbs has no valid reason to have a powerful firearm whilst in the bush & at sea it is a real necessity. However, according to ignorant bureaucrats self defence is not a valid reason to cary a firearm. Shooting mindlessly at paper targets is. Go figure !

Oh the irony of the Liberals backflipping on this issue!
Just for the record, I'm neutral towards gun ownership at the moment;
While I think of it as a fair self-defense right, I also notice that;
-Any crimes that would be legally fixed by an innocent party owning a firearm are really VERY low in this country. Hardly any assaults involve an innocent party, with very few violent thefts or break-ins occurring each year.
-Most Australians REALLY don't inspire confidence in me that they would be responsible firearm owners as a Canadian or Swiss National at all- and would imagine there WOULD be a significant jump in homicides, manslaughter, accidentally shooting the wrong person, kids getting access to the gun, etc if the guns were legalized.

Maybe when there is a drastic shifts in violent crime (both UP for assault on an innocent party, and DOWN for pub brawls and domestic violence), I would reconsider.