Paul,

Ducking for cover as usual, and I didn't support live bait training of greyhounds, in fact exactly the opposite, but I'll forgive your memory slip.
Why do you think that Tony had the best of intentions in banning the Adler?
Why ban it at all?

That link again,

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

Of course the good thing about shooting sports is that you are among civil, law-abiding and reputable citizens, men and women from all walks of life and many retired as well. A good social time out among people where status and so on are irrelevant.

This will be common place in Australia if the pro gun lobby get their way.

Dolan Springs, Arizona: An instructor at a shooting range in Arizona has died after a nine-year-old girl shot him in the head with an Uzi sub-machinegun he was showing her how to use.

Shooting is the only "sport" that if you don't like your opponent you can shoot him dead. Talk about bad sportsmanship!

I Paul,

You suggest that "Shooting is the only "sport" that if you don't like your opponent you can shoot him dead."

Of course, you're right: in boxing and wrestling, one does not have immediate access to a firearm.

Since you put this thread up, I'm presuming that you have some concerns about Australia becoming - or already being - a police state. A bit like, say, Putin's Russia, or Assad's Syria, or Xi's China, or under ISIS - is that what you had in mind ?

I admire your courage, putting up posts alerting us to the dangers around us, and braving the knock on the door at 3 a.m., for the good of the rest of us. Do you reckon you could get away with some of your comments in those other jurisdictions ?

We all need heroes, and if you are marched away, never to be heard of again, put through a mincing machine like in Saddam's Iraq or dropped out of a plane over the ocean like in Argentina or beheaded or burnt alive as in We-all-know-where, rest assured that I, for one, will remember you.

Best of luck,

Joe

Paul1405 brings a reality to Otto that surpasses Kevin Kline's acting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5IQnQhzMSI

The Greens Senators need the dupes who serve to put them in those comfy seats.

Hi OTB,

Yes, perhaps what is needed is some sort of elementary political guide-book for children - and also an 'Idiot's Guide to Useful Idiots' for those who have accidently become adults.

Maybe, Paul, you could write the early chapters ?

Joe