Foxy'
Your reference to Gun Control Australia is useless as they have no provenence, we don't know their membership etc., they might well be a front for the Communist Party of Australia or even for Lee Rhiannon!

Your second ref. is better as they use information from Dr. Jenny Mouzos.

See her conclusions on the effect of the UNF laws.

"....However the observed declines in total homicide and firearm homicide continued a long-term trend rather than the effect of the Port Arthur incident."

< http://books.google.com.au/books?id=nChWOCgeX2oC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=dr+jenny+mouzos&source=bl&ots=LNDHFXy77y&sig=vLvHFReqH1eUYiMVzj9PHvVFStc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BbNXUv_FFc-TiAeD-IDoAw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=dr%20jenny%20mouzos&f=false >

To get back on topic (I do apologize!).

The wife of a good Army friend in India was the object of an attempted rape.
She is petite and very feminine.
She gave the would be rapist the stiff four finger jab to the solar plexus then snapped his neck with a one hand frontal jolt.
She just happens to be an Officer in 'Special Forces'.

She said that she did not intend to kill him but that she acted instinctively. She refused stress leave.

Dear Is Mise,

If you want more information on whether gun control in
Australia is effective - I suggest you Google
the subject on the web - there's quite a few
references and reports available - as well as
"Factcheck" and reputable news agencies such as - Reuters.

Foxy,

You are forever cherry-picking sections of unsupported comment from flakey sites and presenting it as 'evidence'. Once again you crash on with your broken record replies, expecting others to provide facts and reputable sources to support their contentions (which they usually do) while you do not return the favour.

You still have not answered these questions about that flakey gun control site with the phantom behind it, and which refuses membership:

<Tell us now, since the person or interests behind that site will not, exactly how anyone can join that 'organisation' which appears to be just a front? It refuses membership, right?

So how many members does it represent and who are they?

Where do they get their funding, who are the sponsors?

What $$ and other support does that flakey gun control site get from George Soros, the Hungarian born American billionaire currency dealer and has either or both of the one or two people responsible for the site, been sponsored by Soros to travel to the US for training and activism.>

BTW, you referred to Reuters as a trustworthy site. Reuters was the news service that linked George Soros seed money to the 'Occupy Wall Street' activism. What possible motivation could a currency speculator have for supporting a movement that disrupted the share market, causing the value of shares to plummet? Think a bit.

You really need to balance those slanted, cherry-picked factoids you get from that gun control site with some fact and common sense. You are unaware for instance that Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world. Using the 'logic' you employ to 'prove' your phobia against legally held guns (it is always your modus operandi to conflate the offences of criminals and their illegal weapons with the legally held firearms of law-abiding licensed citizens) the world highest suicide rate of gun banning Japan proves that banning firearms causes suicide.

Dear Is Mise,

The fear of the crime touches virtually all
women, instilling in them a wariness of male
strangers, and an apprehension about walking
alone at night or being in deserted places.

If I had a daughter, I would certainly see to it
that she had some sort of "self-defense"
training at an appropriate age.

Your friend was fortunate in her training.
I can't help but wonder though if the story would
have been different had her attacker been
armed. Is she going to get any sort of counseling
at all? She may feel that she doesn't need it now
but it could have serious side-effects later on.

@ Posted by Lexi, Thursday, 17 January 2013 7:54:30 PM,
"The fear of rape touches virtually all women,
instilling in them a wariness of male strangers,
and an apprehension about walking alone at night
or being in deserted places."

You were wrong then and you are wrong now. That is not a fear that is reasonably held. Your fear of men and strangers is as irrational as the hoplophobia and sledging you direct at the thousands of very respectable and law-abiding Australians with the excellent character to vault the high hurdle for a firearms licence.

However, just to reiterate and it has been pointed out to you before, any place that could possibly be considered as risky for women is also risky for men. Probably more so since the serious assaults directed at men by strangers vastly exceeds that for women.

So you can drop your usual anti-male gender slant for a start.

But a nice rushed post from you nonetheless in your usual scurry to bury any posts that question your cherry-picked factoids. So predictable.