The Yank NRA lobby writes: "that cynical, foolish decision to cast low IQ and mental patients back onto families and the community? Of course not!"

None of that (a call for more money to cope with the people described) gainsays that Bryant killed all those people because he had a gun and that without one he could not have done so, that the Howard laws protected non-killers from the likes of Martin Bryant, and that this protects all 24 million Australians despite the efforts of the Yank NRA to unravel it.

If the Yank pollies had the cojones that Howard displayed - to stand up to the NRA - they could protect a further 300 million people from being shot dead at a rate of more than 33 thousand a year.

As Paul1405 stated (eliciting an irrelevant ad hominem spray about European Trotskyites from the Yank gun lobby), the vast majority of decent Australians now expect the Turnbull government to act to destroy this blot on society!

EmperorJulian,

That is incoherent nonsense. Go back and read my post.

Re this sole individual Graham Colyer, is there any evidence that he told the truth in claiming Bryant didn't fire the shots, and about whether he told his story to the court that tried and convicted Bryant, and if not why not?

EmperorJulian,

That is way off beam. My posts had nothing to do with Colyer.

Graham Colyer was not the only individual to say that the shooter had a pockmarked face, others said the same, as far as I recall none of those who disputed the identification were ever called as witnesses.
Be that as it may, conspiracy theories abound and the reason for the spate of such theories can be laid fairly at the feet of Government.

Don't you like Graham Colyer, is that why you continue to insult this Port Arthur victim?

Proper to query every individual cited by the Yank NRA as now saying Bryant didn't shoot anyone, especially when accompanied by tinfoil hat stuff from the same source that it was a government conspiracy and by implication that the court that convicted Bryant was bent. Like the claims by the same Yank NRA source that the Sandy Hook murders were a government invention.

As Paul1405 wrote, this gun lobby blot is something the Turnbull government will need to confront head on. Indeed it is something that both the Tweedledum party and the Tweedledee will need to make an election issue.