"Q: How do you tell a Green is lying?
A: The lips are moving."

Aww...come on, otb....as stunning as that is, its a well known fact that it applies more fulsomely to Abbott and his merry band of liars.

(Abbottotototoaphobia strikes again!)

"it's"

The solution to controlling feral animals is known to be a mix of strategies, including the free to the taxpayer recreational hunting by private individuals. The private hunters are invaluable for intel on new introductions and changing numbers of pest species, including insects and disease.

No small group of ill-informed, spoiler activists with a megaphone and access to a tabloid should ever be allowed to dictate to the remainder of the community.

Personally, I see no problems at all with any member of the public who can obtain a licence from taking rabbits, pigs and deer for the table. Hunting has been done forever and especially so during hard economic times when the rabbit for instance, was the 'underground mutton' that eked out many a family budget.

Indigenous hunt and many migrants come from cultures with hunting traditions.

In NSW, the human headline and political lightweight, Greens' Shoebridge is just playing cynical 'gun ban' politics, following in the footsteps of Lee Rhiannon (Brown). The NSW Greens would prefer to aerial-drop the fearsome 1080 poison and leave magnificent deer fly-blown, rotting, after their long and painful death struggle.

Typical Greens, telling only half of the story and that part is twisted too.

And a good afternoon to you, IS MISE...

At the risk of offending you, and from the outset, I'll be quite candid in saying, I have enormous respect for you, both as a Korean War Veteran, and a small arms expert ! But from a purely police perspective the more guns on the street, the greater the risk it is for the police themselves.

I always concede, most criminality involving F/A's comes from those who don't have a licensed F/A...we all know that. Nevertheless, there are other incidences involving a F/A where the weapon used was both licenced as was the user and/or the victim. Suicides, accidents, domestics, theft of the F/A, whatever. Whenever the situation involving a gun goes 'pear shape' it's the police that need to attend and sort it out. And it's true, the coppers do make errors, serious errors ?

I realize you and I have had previous discussions on this issue, and you always mount a compelling argument - and in reply, I've always maintained if the shooting fraternity were all comprised of; 'IS MISE'S' we'd not have a worry at all. The problem is, they're not ! In fact some licenced gun owners, shouldn't have 'em at all ! You and I both know it, but somehow they've either fell through the cracks, or they've gone to Court and the presiding Magistrate has overturned the police's objection, in favour of the appellant ?

Simply put, more guns on the street, whether licenced or not, means (regrettably) more problems for the coppers.

o sung wu,

No offence taken, mate.

Straight from the horse's mouth,
"....Gun licences in NSW have reportedly increased more than 37,000 in the past five years - and the state's police have blamed American pop culture.

The state now has 215,462 licenced gun users, up from 177,675 five years ago, News Corp has reported...."Generally speaking however Australians don’t have a strong gun culture....But there is an element in the community who are swayed by the US culture that guns are a right rather than a privilege."

[NOTE!!] However, Det Supt Plotecki said the increase in licences had not come with a corresponding increase in firearm crime.

"If you are a legitimate gun licence holder you are probably doing everything right," he said.
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/04/03/02/12/nsw-cops-blame-us-gun-culture-for-firearms-increase

Allowing the so called recreational shooters into national parks will result in accidental (we can't be sure of that) deaths. Here are some examples.

"Ms Rosemery Ives, 25, was cleaning her teeth at her campsite when she was shot at close range by Andrew Mears who had been illegally hunting with three friends." That was in NZ.

Closer to home here in NSW.

"During the recent school holidays a horrified family were confronted by a marauding gang of hunters driving into a camping ground in a south east National Park randomly shooting kangaroos, taking aim at anything that moved. In front of the distressed family, mum, dad and three little darlings, camped in the remote but popular National Park they shot a number of kangaroos and loaded some dead and half dead animals onto a vehicle before driving off, leaving dead and maimed animals behind. As they departed the driver, an oafish looking man with teeth missing, yell at little nine year old Sarah "Look out girly we'll be back". Police described the trio as gorilla like individuals, dirty and unshaven, they we last seen exiting the park in a beat up 1960's pick-up truck. The evidence left behind included sever empty beer bottles, spent cartridges, and a copy of the unpopular cook book 'Field to Folk' with the word "From Bob with love" inside the front cover.Police warned 'Do not approach these unsavory characters as they are armed and dangerous!"

BEACH, I challenged you to name names! When do you intend to do so? All you can do is hide in anonymity on this forum and call good people liars. Why not state you real reasons for supporting so called "licensed hunters", could it be you want a para military force of the like minded to enforce a police state, you so fervently desire.