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Posted by Paul1405, Sunday, 5 April 2015 7:04:57 PM
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Paul,
Further to your request for information on accidental shootings etc., the Easter Holidays are now over and as far as I know there have been no shootings, either deliberate or accidental, despite the number of hunters out over the period and the number of shooters on ranges all over the country. There have however been 40 deaths on the roads nationwide and 4 of those in NSW. Serious road injuries in NSW are 170 and over 4,000 motorists have been booked for speeding in that State. (vide the Deputy Commissioner of Police, NSW, on ABC television this morn). What will the Greens do about this serious situation on the NSW roads? Blame gun owners? Posted by Is Mise, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 11:03:22 AM
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Is Mise, the mocking of the carnage on our roads is not your style. It is a tragedy that all Australians should be sickened by. To use such a thing to try and score some cheap political points against The Greens, well what can I say.
<<What will the Greens do about this serious situation on the NSW roads? Blame gun owners?>> No, we encourage the maximum amount of driver education about drinking, drugs and speed,etc, road and vehicle safety etc. Along with law enforcement to try and stem what is a terrible blight on our society. Do you have any other suggestions? Posted by Paul1405, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 9:42:47 PM
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Paul,
"Is Mise, the mocking of the carnage on our roads is not your style. It is a tragedy that all Australians should be sickened by. To use such a thing to try and score some cheap political points against The Greens, well what can I say. " You could say that I had taken a leaf out of David Shoebridge's book when he and other Greens had lept upon the bandwagon of tragedy to score a point. Such as calling for bans on semi-automatic pistols when there is a shooting in the USA or the more recent calling for tougher gun laws over the Lyndt Cafe incident. "SYDNEY SIEGE SHOWS TOUGHER GUN LAWS NEEDED NOW Thursday, Dec 18th, 2014 Today's revelation that the gunman at the Sydney siege had a gun licence must lead to tougher gun laws across the country....." Not only was this blatant opportunism but opportunism based on a lie, which can still be read at http://nsw.greens.org.au/news/nsw/sydney-siege-shows-tougher-gun-laws-needed-now I must watch myself in future, it's not good form to slip down to the level of the Greens, my apologies. Posted by Is Mise, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 8:31:08 AM
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Considering campaigns to loosen gun laws and their enforcement one must turn only to the gun death rate in America, the home of constitutionally protected gun anarchy. Death from some clown's bullet is compulsory for each of the ten thousand US victims annually. Damage and death from poison sold on the streets is by contrast voluntary. Neither compulsory injury nor voluntary injury is desirable but there's a difference between the two that should not go unrecognised by apologists who use bikie involvement in the drug trade to support back door calls for bit by bit unravelling of the Howard gun laws.
Posted by EmperorJulian, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 12:45:37 PM
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EmperorJulian,
Why use the USA as your exemplar, why not South Africa? Or any of the other nations that have a higher murder rate? See;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate for a breakdown of murder rates and an idea of what a safe country the USA is in reality. This Wiki article is based on The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) figures. Posted by Is Mise, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 1:16:09 PM
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<<The risk is that migrants could import and establish toxic political systems>>
That is a laugh coming from a person with such ultra right views as yourself. Are you a migrant? Your only interests in "hunting" is the establishment of some kind of gun toting quasi paramilitary organisation to act as your enforcers, should your ilk every come to power, and form that totalitarian state you so desire.
The extremists wants, (armed) "school Cadets with their Lee Enfields on public transport", no less!
When can I expect an answer to that request? Name names.