Take guns off people> yea no worries, but take guns off government first.

Referundemdrivensocienty

Nothing like a good ole conspiracy theory, but if you're going to push one it helps to get the facts straight, Port Arthur happened before Howard introduced his draconian laws, not after.

I think the Port Arthur massacre was what prompted Howard to introducethe present gun law, stupid law that leaves criminals with guns and good people without guns.

Men who love the guns love killing. The Australia Prime minister Howard did great thing to take away lots of guns from the men who like killing.

Misanthrope,

Are you saying defence force personel like killing or do they have guns to defend people like you?

What do we say? Arm everyone because criminals have weapons and we the civil public declare war on criminals, if innocent people get killed that is called collateral damage. What insanity!

Guns are not needed in the towns and cities to arm citizens, except for controlled sport shooting, and in the country to control feral animals.