Removing guns from society does not stop crime.In Sydney we've had daily driveby shootings.The criminals and lunatics will always get them.Anyone with access to a lathe and knowledege of tool making can make any gun they want but it is far cheaper to buy them over the internet or an illegal dealer.

More people in the USA die from car accidents than guns.Do we then ban cars? If the Jews were armed in Hitler's reign would they have gone so willingly into the gas chambers? History tells us that we cannot trust our Govts and the USA has 200 million guns in private hands.There are 800 FEMA camps in the USA supposedly for illegal immigrants but no one is in them,even though they are now manned.They are set up in a classic Hitler style with trains and helicopter servicing them with barbed/razor wire and even turnstiles for processing people.The new laws in the USA now allow the Military to detain anyone indefinitely without reason or have access to legal rights.Bradley Manning is held under these laws for being a whistle blower.They will do the same to Assange if they get him.

Glen Beck tried to debunk them but couldn't and in one day,cancelled his show on them doing another backflip.Just google Glen Beck and FEMA camps and you too might think about being armed.

How many mass shootings have we had of innocent bystanders in Australia lately, Arjay?

Regarding cars: that's kinda lame to compare the two. Cars are designed to transport people. Unfortunately it's the nature of the beast that a capsule moving at speed controlled by a human will occasionally come to grief.

Guns are designed to maim and kill - not other use or reason for a gun.

If there were 260 million Australians our figures would be bad on par with the USA.
As for guns killing people ? You'll find that it is the explosive powder behind the bullet.

Suse,

How would you tackle pest control given that you've just taken away our ability to control it?

Poirot, yes, but the fact remains, cars cause more deaths here than guns.

Another issue we will have is in a generation or two, it would be fair to assume that very few would even know how to use a gun.

Now while many may say, I will grab a gun and defend myself, a weapon in inexperienced hands can become an easy weapon for the enemy.

As I say, why is it more gun attacks happen here now, than did prior to the intro of gun laws.

The laws have simply disarmed law abiding citizens and offered a level of protection to crimes, as they know most people don't have a gun, at the ready, in their homes.

I am no gun nut, but I have no problems with people owning them.

Better to train people in safe use, than to all but disarm an entire country.

individual,

There are over 314 million Americans, and our "figures" would only be on a par with them if we had unfettered access to guns and a psych that permits such paranoid behaviour as a favourable state of affairs. There is also the situation where people become accustomed to such barbarity unfolding in society on a daily basis.

It becomes the accepted norm - as it has in America