Is Mise I can only presume the Romans considered feeding Christians to the lions, a sport, and people who today catch flies and pull their wings off, may call it a sport, like hunting, hand eye coordination. I will concede those engaged in the past time of shooting clay people tossed into the air are participating in some kind of sport. However, I cannot concede that those running around the bush shooting defenseless animals are engaged in a sport, no more that I would call throwing hand grenades into a pond to catch fish, a sport.
Given the guest list I can only envisage this firing fun day of mutual back slapping at parliament house was akin to 'The Mad Hatters Tea Party'! What was the main course 'Stuffed Koala in a Wombat sauce' just an appetizer from the cookbook 'Field to Folk'.

Now we have established that most of this shooting shenanigans is not a bona fide sport, what can we talk about?

Paul1405,

The Greens are however in favour of the outlaw motorcycle gangs who manufacture and traffic ice/Methylamphetamine, along with other very nasty criminal activities they are engaged in. Drug trafficking is responsible for almost all of the violent gang crime and involving guns, including gun running.

The Australian outlaw motorcycle gangs are involved in international drugs and are being pursued by police internationally for setting up chapters in other countries and in Asia. Australia is now one of the highest per capita drug using countries and the most profitable for criminal gangs.

The import and distribution of methamphedamine is also a very good example of the failure of leftist 'Progressive' governments such as those led by Rudd and Gillard/Greens to protect the borders and exercise due diligence in the screening of migrants. This is the result,
<AUSTRALIA is awash with methamphetamine — and it’s likely coming from a relatively small district in the south of China..
On February 18, 2015 two Australian men were charged after 16 kilograms of meth amphetamine was found in a shipment of treadmills coming from China.
And one week later two men from Malaysia and Hong Kong were charged with importing $65 million worth of the drug into Sydney in boxes marked as “kids’s toys.”>
http://tinyurl.com/pso5b5k

and this,

http://tinyurl.com/purtpa4

and this,

<Today, The Daily Telegraph reported concerns from a former police commissioner, Ken McKay, that the current gang atmosphere could create a new wave of ethnic-based criminal gangs in Sydney.
In New South Wales last year, the Brothers 4 Life gang emerged and was thought to be behind a wave of shootings. It differed from traditional gangs, in that it had a loose structure, with police believing it was made up of friends and relatives who had sworn loyalty to founder Bassam Hamzy.>
http://tinyurl.com/l8aj8r5

It is the stated priority of the Greens and Labor to tear down the effective anti-gang laws in Queensland.

Suseonline, "It never stops at clay target shooting though does it?"

It's those phallic images you have and you are not so keen on men anyhow.

Some of Australia's finest shotgun competitors are women,

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

Shooting is one of the very few sports that was always open to all comers and was non-discriminatory.

http://www.shootingaustralia.org/in-sport/paralympicprogram/rifle.html

This is on what Senator McKenzie had to say in a Senate speech:

"The Senator pointed to the many social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits of hunting, saying: “There are incredible conservation benefits from hunting. It brings economic, social and environmental benefits - these are recognised worldwide through international conventions and the like. Hunting delivers $200 million dollars a year to New Zealand, and $200 million is delivered to the African economy as a result of trophy hunting - $200 million a year to the poorest continent on earth. That flows right through not only to the national economy but also down onto the ground and to villages that run conservation projects and manage animals sustainably.”

http://www.ssaa.org.au/capital-news/2015/2015-03-13_hunters-defended-in-passionate-senate-speech.html#.VRuGKPyUcuo

Paul,

This is from the NSW Greens' Official Policies:

"15.4 Establish good and genuine reasons for possessing a licence (e.g. persons with an occupational requirement, e.g. primary producers, other rural purposes, security employees and professional shooters for nominated purposes or a member of an approved sports shooting association);"

http://nsw.greens.org.au/policies/nsw/firearms

What is Greens approved sports shooting?

Beach, an unsubstantiated and gutless attack on The Greens, something you are well noted for on this form. I challenge you to name any Green in New South Wales, in or out of Parliament who in your words is;

<<in favour of the outlaw motorcycle gangs who manufacture and traffic ice/Methylamphetamine, along with other very nasty criminal activities they are engaged in. Drug trafficking is responsible for almost all of the violent gang crime and involving guns, including gun running.>>

I challenge you to put up or shut up! I suspect in your usual cowardly fashion you will crawl back into your cesspit of unanimity and wallow in your own feces!