Hi Suse and Paul,

Yes, it's not nice that so many people have guns. Terrible. So dangerous. Awful.

So what do we do about it ?

Joe

//So what do we do about it ?//

* Don't emigrate to America.
* Don't let Australia become America: we've already got good control laws. All we have to do is ignore people like beach asking to us to loosen them, and I think we'll probably be all right.

In the case of America, I think the horse has already bolted.

Toni Lavis, "All we have to do is ignore people like beach asking to us to loosen them, and I think we'll probably be all right"

You might give an example where I have done that.

Like some other Jackasses you are clueless about the regulations and their operation and have nothing of value to contribute, hence the inane forum bait.

The firearms registry for instance is a repository of data gathered on the thousands of licensed people who obey the law and register their firearms. Howard must have been very surprised when offenders didn't volunteer to register their guns.

Police in weapons branches would far prefer to be collaring criminals which is why they became police, instead of wasting their scant resources gathering data on thousands of reputable citizens who comply with laws and have no reasonable likelihood of ever using their valuable assets to offend. Ex-PM Tony Abbott learned through sad experience that offenders do not register their guns and the data held is not reliable (the embarrassing debacle over the Martin Place terrorist).

However the registry is a one stop information bank for criminals wanting to identify members of the public who own firearms and where they are held. There are continual allegations that firearms registry data security has been compromised and supplied to outlaw motorcycle gangs.

My first interest as always and my posting record across the board bears witness to it, is value for getting the best money and accountability for the money government extracts compulsorily from taxpayers.

Howard's gun control did nothing whatsoever to control or even mildly deter the illegal ownership and of course illegal use firearms and the offenders were most happy with all of those police resources being (mis)directed to looking over the shoulders of already checked and certified reputable licensed citizens instead.

Here is a small challenge, give one example where Howard's hugely expensive 'gun control' firearms registry has ever solved a crime.

To correct the typo and worth repeating anyhow,

"My first interest as always and my posting record across the board bears witness to it, is getting the best value and accountability for the money government extracts compulsorily from taxpayers"

That would be very interesting; a list of the crimes solved through the various Firearms Registries.

Remember that if your list is very long there is a word limit, but you can make a number of posts.

Looking forward to the Revelations.

<<I (Beach) would not have any problems at all if all if my neighbours like many thousands of other Aussies had current firearms licences. I would prefer it.>>

Beach, I don't know if you live in a rural or urban environment, but I do know you live in a fools paradise to make such a statement. Making gun licences as freely available as driving licences, that is what you are saying. Like the driving test, which proves you were a competent driver on the day of the test, a gun licence simply shows you were deemed to be of good character and background, when you applied for the licence, and that can be debated as to its value and accuracy.