Arm citizens, Is Mise? Like you?
As if...

Bazz, I feel sorry for people like you who are so terrified to just get on and live life right now, rather than being paranoid about the future all the time.
Terrorists love people who are frightened of them...it feeds their hatred.

All you good ol' boys should just leave the protection of Australia to the experts.
They have done a pretty good job so far.

"All you good ol' boys should just leave the protection of Australia to the experts.
They have done a pretty good job so far."

Yeah, what she said!

For example one of the reasons the experts have been doing such a bang up job (well so long as you ignore Endeavour Hills, Martin Place and Parramatta) is that they have managed to stop all illegal boat arrivals. And Suse, in her anxiety to delegate all decision making to others, is, I'm sure, perfectly OK with that.

They've also passed legislation to give the authorities access to everyone's metadata, and again Suse will be A-OK with that.

Suse,

I already have access to firearms, rifles and shotguns and I'm in the local pistol club as well.
Despite my age I'm still very proficient with arms and last range day in the rapid fire event I managed to fire 12 scoring hits on the target at 50 metres; done with a single shot rifle and despite one mis-fed round that cost me a few seconds, reckon that I would have got my usual 15 away in the minute allowed.

Once upon a time I used to give fast draw demos, I'd hold my right arm out straight in front at shoulder height, a match box on the back of my hand, draw my pistol and hit the box back up into the air with the barrel.

I was not really fast but it looked good.

Arvo Ojala, who taught Hollywood actors to handle pistols, had a neat party trick; he'd stand about 15 feet from an upright plank, hold a knife above his head in his right hand, throw the knife with a downward sweep of his arm, continue the downward movement, draw his 1873 Colt and fire at the plank and the knife would strike in the bullet hole.

Now that's fast.

So yeah, blokes like me when I was younger.

Mhaze, of course I am happy the boats have stopped, as it means no one else will drown, however we don't really know that has actually happened because of secret government men's business.
But you seem to have me all worked out, so I don't really need to say anything at all do I?

Is Mise, I don't care how good you are with guns. That is not the point.
The point is that vigilantism went out with the Ku klux klan.

If none of your gun-ho 'armed citizens' (armed with their weapon of choice of course) are dressed in uniform or easily recognized, how will all these trigger-happy fellows know who is the terrorist? It would all end up as a free for all, with even more innocent people dying.
If this sort of thing worked, why haven't they gone with it in the US, with all their gun crimes?

Suse,

We're t not talking about vigilantes but about trained personnel licenced by the Government.
In plain clothes and if armed people in plain clothes are a problem for you then I hope that you don't worry about the Police detectives.

As has been pointed out to you numerous times the mass shootings in the US occur in "Gun Free Zones" where the law abiding don't carry their guns.

There have been no mass shootings at schools where the staff may be armed but the media never mentions that, nor the occasions when armed teachers have nipped trouble in the bud.

Do you remember reading about the off duty US policewoman who shot a gunman in church?

"But you seem to have me all worked out"

Yes I thought as much. But its not that hard. There are so many like you. A preference for the warm inner glow over facing up to the real world.