Hands up all those in favour of women not being able to protect themselves from rapists.

Hands up all those who have a solution to the problem of women being raped.

Dear OTB,

I stopped reading your post after your statement that -
I have no idea about the laws here in Australia or the
US.

Foxy,

Foxy,

You don't and you cannot fool anyone who has a smidgen of knowledge that you do.

As well, you persist in conflating the gun owners who commit crimes,

- which in the US are very predominately young blacks from slums and invariably associated with the drug trade, and

- in Australia are similarly, invariably lower socioeconomic ferals, well represented in OMGs, and strongly linked with drug trafficking,

with the respectable law-abiding citizens who have licences and can always be trusted to act legally and with respect, whether that is with firearms or in other life activities.

Your concern is gun control, ie banning firearm ownership by legitimate owners, not reducing crime. In fact you are likely soft on criminals and support criminal rights. These are proved by your total lack of concern about the fundamental citizen's rights of licensed gun owners being warped, or that citizens who defend themselves against burglary and other serious offences in their own home will have to contend with the reverse onus of proof should the offender be injured.

Quite clearly the Howard inspired gun control laws did nothing to reduce or even deter the illegal ownership and use of firearms. OMGs import their preferred menacing 'gangsta' weapons for their enforcement activities of their drug trafficking.

You of course would very much prefer to duck the rather obvious facts and questions I have posed again in this thread. So be it, yet again.

Once upon a time this country trusted me with a couple of million dollars worth of reasonably high tech weapon.

This weapon flew off an aircraft carrier, & carried rockets capable of destroying any air liner, & with a bit of luck, sinking reasonably large ships.

I was trained in the use of this & many other weapons, including ships with quite large guns. I was expected to be prepared to put my life on the line, using these weapons to defend the citizens of this country.

Today I am expected to answer to some half baked junior police constable, in some cases silly little girls you would not trust to handle a chainsaw or brush cutter, without injuring themselves, as to whether I should be trusted with a pea rifle.

Is it any surprise we now have little respect for the country or it's laws, & wonder if it is still worth defending.

In business I would take possession of a Firearms Licence as proof of good honest and stable character, which it is. If a Firearms Licence (and they are photographic with tamper proof design) were shown as proof of ID for (say) a tenancy application, in my book the holder would instantly get preference and for good reason in view of the expense of the asset being placed at his/her disposal.

Honestly, what better proof can a person tender that s/he is of good character, responsible and reliable?

So Hasbeen ,the fact that you have qualified for and retained a Firearms Licence, especially for so many years is proof you are a fine upstanding citizen who takes his responsibilities seriously and in whom trust can be placed.

Not sure just what is takeing place but my post went without reason and the wrong thread showed on my screen?
Chris last night 700 cops took part in a search for guns.
How many of them would have been shot and killed if guns became as freely available as you want them to be.
Foxy not kidding but in all truth you have time and again been exposed to sexist comments here as have other women just for having opinions that differ from a few who are overly confident in their own views, but seek to stop you having yours.