Beach, you are calling it a "green dream", to dispose of a "mature white gent" for the expressed purpose of "taking that underused house and other assets (of that mature white gent) that the 'more deserving' ought have" I would call it more your fascists goal, than any kind of "green dream"!

Suse I totally agree with you, but as expected the 'Authoritarian Nazi' does not, and the resident 'Daniel Boone', who is living 70 years in the past calls it "garbage". What you say is absolutely reasonable and true.

Hasbeen, certainly the home gun was handy back in the good old days, but we don't need it now to provide us with food.

As I said, the military need guns, no question about that, so I don't know why you are raving on about the good ol days of the Second World War?

In any case, there were thousands of very damaged people, both physically and mentally, from that war, so we don't want to glamorize those days too much.

We don't need guns in suburbia.

To any of those who warn me of taking sides or to be careful who I side with....well bring it on !

I'll NEVER EVER run from a stink, OK it's simply not in my DNA !

It was once said the key to keeping the people of Rome content , during the Roman empire , was to provide " bread and circuses" .
In the US Empire , that has been nuanced to "bread , circuses and war" . Because nothing so stimulates the US psyche as a war where the opponent can be characterised as 'evil' and a 'threat' requiring national unity behind decision makers who are acting for interests other than the people who elected them .
Power is as addictive as crack cocaine and the 'habit' is gnawing at the minds of those who can see their power threatened by emerging or resurgent societies . And if the methods of Empires to retain their power seem insane , it is because they are . As insane as a drug addicted mugger on a main street in broad daylight . The adverse , self destructive consequences of their actions are less important than the fast ego 'fix' they get from the temporary proceeds .
Patient China will keep giving them enough rope to hang themselves , while the US takes pride in the strength of the slip knot they are fashioning for themselves .

o sung wu,

Why do you slander the sport and recreation of these young Aussies, maligning them too in the process?

http://www.shootingaustralia.org/index.php

It is a totally non-discriminatory sport too and always has been.

http://www.tra.org.au/TRA%20BROCHURE%20ver%204_6Mar2014.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdst7Q6dlwQ
- Emma Cox who recently won a silver medal at the world championships.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-16/australia27s-emma-cox-wins-silver-at-shooting-world-championsh/5745966

There are thousands of respectable, law-abiding citizens who by their nature live the impeccably honest lives to obtain and hold a firearms licence.

These are the people who are regularly abused by scurrilous elements like the NSW 'Watermelon' (read as Trotskyist) Greens, who deliberately and foully conflate these many thousands of fine upstanding taxpaying citizens with the criminals that perversely the Greens strongly support (anything to get a few votes it appears).

As far as the Greens are concerned, criminals have rights that the Greens deny to the ordinary working citizens who are forced to stump up the $1million plus it takes to keep a non-productive Greens senator, and that is not including the decades of swinging from the taxpayer's teat in retirement. The NSW Watermelon Greens are the fruit cakes who picketed a common shopkeeper - their ratbag protest for a trade embargo against the onle effective democracy in the Middle East. See here,
http://tinyurl.com/chocolate-picket