Steele,

"And what about Police Senior Constable Daniel Yeoman? Has anyone asked him what he wants? Do you think that might include a doubling of the number of households with weapons inside? .... In your selfishness you are demanding that police officers like Daniel Yeoman face heightened risks in an already dangerous job."

Not so, in my "selfishness' I would demand that police officers be allowed to carry a pistol, of their choice, at all times; then perhaps the number of police attacked when off duty might decrease and the general community would be safer.

Or do you think that a policeman being stabbed in front of his family is not much of a price to pay for for the political correctness of not allowing people the wherewithal with which to defend themselves?

Foxy,

I still remember and with some awe, the first time that I saw "Bailed Up".
Tom Roberts remains my favourite Australian painter.

SteelRedux, "..yet another child has been shot in the face in NSW incidentally with the same caliber weapon employed by Mr Dunstan"

The deceitful pin of propagandists takes the findings of social psychologists and turns the known error-ridden short-cuts of thinking and in particular the brain's use of patterning, back on humanity.

SteelRedux's posts teem with examples, betraying the extreme prejudice of its sources, advised by propagandists. In the few words quoted, there are two tricky heuristics, the 'Availability Bias' and the 'Salience Bias'. The first, Availability, is used to create a false belief of many incidences, simply by sensationalising every single incident, regardless where it comes from. You get the same effect when you buy an uncommon item, eg a red Saab, and suddenly 'see' red Saabs everywhere. But Saabs are uncommon and the company went into receivership in Australia. The 'Salience Error' makes it way easier for the propagandist to manipulate the public where the event could have a very serious, catastrophic consequence. It is catastrophising and sensationalising to bend minds, grubby tricks.

Taken logically, SR's boy example proves the exact opposite of what SR's handlers/source would want you to believe. The fact is that in Australia, which has always enjoyed a high firearms ownership and enviable safety, firearms accidents are exceptionally rare and serious harm, while it can happen in all recreational activities and sports, is even rarer still. Much rarer than (say) cyclist injuries and death. Rarer too than injury from junior AFL or basketball.

contd..

Where 'dissing' legal, licensed ownership of firearms is concerned, Foreign currency dealing billionaire Soros' 'Open Society', starting with the name being an example of Marxist manipulation of language, is the usual source of sloppy 'research' and bent and twisted reports overflowing with examples of manipulation of human biases. No surprise there where academics, faux academics too, are always on the look-out for funding and some may be encouraged to flex their ethics, or others allow their own biassed view, their idealism, to compromise their science and ethics.

Soros is hell-bent on interfering in the domestic politics of democracies like Australia where political disruption and deals behind the scenes might allow him to side-step those pesky stock market and other regulations that deter and punish manipulation of markets and other nasties.

Returning to the 'boy shot in face' example that was intended to trip up the discussion and did, even the statement of the accident appears false, misleading, because allegedly it was a fragment, metallic, stone, wood or whatever from a ricochet, not a direct shot as implied by SR. The pea- or mouse rifle .22 as it is know overseas, is slow-moving and users need to ensure that the ground is not stoney where the slow, soft lead can break up to fly for a short distance.

That is without discussing the deliberate, misleading false comparison, the deliberate false analogy, employed to fox readers.

Australians are fed up with nasty brain manipulators and thought police. Note too, that Aussies deeply resent foreign billionaires and their mates interfering in their domestic politics.

Shame, SteelRedux, shame.

Dear Is Mise,

I can understand your emotions regarding the works of
Tom Roberts. We certainly have been blessed in this
country with some great talent and our art galleries have
increased interest so that more and more people are now
able to get experience of art than perhaps ever before.
Our artists, writers, musicians, performers in the arts,
have earned Australia a place amongst the world's best.

"Elderly Perth woman tries to stave off car thief with umbrella

Kensington Detectives are seeking information from the public in relation to an armed robbery that occurred in St James just before midday yesterday, 28 September 2017.
The robbery occurred when a woman aged in her 60’s was exiting a supermarket on Chapman Road. As she walked to her silver Holden Calais parked on Pitt Street, she noticed a man near the pay phone on Pitt Street. As she reached her vehicle he approached the woman at the driver’s side door, produced and knife and demanded the keys.
A struggle ensued, with the woman striking the offender a number of times with an umbrella. During this time the woman received a cut to the hand from the knife.
The man eventually took the keys and started the vehicle. The woman attempted to get the man out of her vehicle, but he drove away at speed, knocking her to the ground. She received bruising and grazes to her hands and knees."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-29/elderly-woman-with-umbrella-ries-to-fight-off-perth-car-thief/9000520