Is Mise,

I had assumed that this thread was to be a serious discussion about Pauline Hanson's comeback into politics - I can see that you had another agenda all along.

Lexi,
Don't the Greens feature in the first post?
Did they not open the attack on her?
I'm sure that we can all correctly assume that Paulene Hanson would not be so crassly insensitive as to make political capital out of human trajedy, something that has become expected of the Greens.

So much so that Senator Bob Brown MD is becoming known as 'Humanity' Brown, whatever failings Paulene may have she does not lack humanity.

I might add for your benefit Lexi, that farmers and their families and workers, often face real danger in the bush and in Western Australia stockmen have been licenced to carry pistols when mustering as, if their life is threatened by charging wild cattle, they have a chance of protecting themselves. A rifle on horseback is a mite unwieldly sometimes.
Not all of us live in the city, Lexi, and a firearm is just another tool and one that I use a couple of times a week killing foxes and the occassional feral cat, because I do something about protecting our unique fauna.

Lexi, you may have a point, however, PH has been known to say that she admires immigrants that "try to assimilate and adopt our customs"

It is the ones who come here and try to 'change our world' that she dislikes. And why shouldn't she?

Have you been to a shopping centre lately and noticed the 'trolley collectors'. It's become a 'spot the aussie' affair.

Now if we were at 20% unemployment I am sure you would see some reaction to that here to. But then again, you get well supported for doing nothing in this country, even if it's just to feed your uncontrollable habits.

Now as for a farmer needing a gun, well, those who think any farmer shouldn't have a gun 'at the ready 24/7' is a complete and utter out of touch 'toss'!

Once again, it's a case of 'let's see who's world we can interfere with today' scenario.

Get a life!

Dear rehctub:

If Ms Hanson admires immigrants that try to "assimilate" and adopt "our" customs - perhaps she should make it quite clear as to what she means by "our" and which precise customs she's referring to.
I'm sure that new arrivals would find that most helpful. You may not realise it - but Australia has evolved over the decades - whereas judging from your comments and those of Ms Hanson - neither of you seem to have evolved very far. You both seem to be still living back in the irretrievable past with a fantasy of an all-white Australia.
If contemporary Australians are to live at ease with themselves, they need more education, less fear mongering, and not least, greater honesty about the culture of racism that is so damagins to us all.
As for telling me to "get a life," that's no way to win an argument,
No one likes or supports an abusive, illogical or weak debater.

Dear Ise Mise,

Handguns with magazines holding up to ten bullets are not prohibited on the Australian market. So I don't understand what your complaint is. Most thinking people should be concerned about issues dealing with guns when research shows that the less guns that are available in the community, the less likely someone will be shot by a firearm. There should be mechanisms to stop gun licences being issued to people who aren't fit to hold a licence. There should be restrictions on the sale of ammunition, sold only by licensed gun shops to licensed shooters and limited to ammunition that suits firearms registered in the licensee's name. There should also be Australia-wide uniformity of gun laws. There should be laws requiring all outlets to keep a register of all ammunition bought and sold and so on. Shooting foxes is helpful, but it's likely to only remove a small proportion of foxes. A baiting programme using "FOXOFF" for baits and Econobaits twice a year, with bait replacement until the take is reduced is an effective and environmentally conscious form of fox control in most rural areas.

Lexi, I doubt you can change their minds, but I enjoy watching your much more reasoned approach :)

Pauline Hanson and her band of racist, white, shoot-em-up, good-ol-boys, still living in the mid 1900's or worse, will never get majority support in Australian society today because most Australians today have dragged themselves out of that old-fashioned mindset.