Is Mise, the rally will be a flop only if innocent people continue to be killed by people with guns. If only one person turned up and it saved one life then the rally would be a success.

To answer your questions.

How does one gate crash a public meeting? Don't know, ask a gate crasher.

Or was that just a bit of emotive hyperbole to get the unthinking on side? No, assuming "that" refers to gate crashing.

What makes the Adler shotgun so different to other shotguns that it required a public meeting about it? No difference, yet another killing device.

A question for you.

Would Robert Turnbull, stand accused of SHOOTING DEAD Glen Turner if he did not posses a GUN? A simple yes or no will do.

Paul,

you stated that the shooters gate crashed the meeting; now you say that you don't know; so you made a statement about something that you now admit that you know nothing about. Normal.

Yes he had to have had a gun to shoot the other person, just as the policeman at Parramatta had to have a gun to shoot the terrorist, thereby possibly saving other lives.
As you say, if only one life is saved.

How many were there at that public meeting, five, ten?

Hi IS MISE...

I used to stand picket at night with the sweat pouring off me, dreaming of a couple of 'cold ones' and spending twenty minutes inside a fridge or something. I could never understand how 'close' it got over there at night, and boy did you sweat. Even during stand-down in your hootch you'd lay there listening to the thousands of insects making a racket, and still you sweat ! Though listening to your accounts of Korea, I think I'd rather the tropics to be honest, then being in the very cold weather. To each his own I guess ? Thanks mate.

o sung wu,

More on the cold front.
The Imjin River is a wide meandering stream (or it is where I was) and in winter 52 ton Centurion tanks could drive along on top of it the ice was so thick.
The Engineers used post hole borers to get down under the ice to pump up drinking water, this was delivered during the day in tankers and 44 gallon drums around the various camps were filled for ordinary usage.
There'd be a rush to fill up individual containers when a delivery was made, before the water froze; otherwise the ice had to be chipped out and melted on the stove.

Brrrrr!

Is Mise, since you like to keep score, how many lives are you willing to trade to lax gun laws so that the gun happy brigade can indulge their perverted pleasure, five, ten?

I said I didn't know how they gate crashed the rally. I don't know how their feeble but diabolical minds work. For all I know they could have blasted their way in.

Can I have your opinion of that American grub Walter Palmer, the so called 'Great White Hunter' who shot dead a wonderfully noble creature, a lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe recently. Have a look at the slag in the pic in the following article, and then tell me you approve of his actions. While you are at it, please explain how "hunting" is a sport?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/28/walter-palmer-dentist-accused-killing-cecil-lion-upset-hunter-zimbabwe

Paul,

No one can gate crash a public meeting as you well know.
How many of the faithful turned up at the rally?
Some of those that were there are saying that they felt lonely and that the press outnumbered the protesters.