contd..
While it is truly disgusting that the cynical Greens are only out to find cans to kick now that their barebacking on Gays is nearly over, they are also joined by others like LNP Leader and PM(!) Malcolm Turnbull and even more recently, Qld Labor Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, who find 'US gun culture' a useful distraction for the media and public when they have smelly diapers themselves and and are ducking questions. Annastasia has found a 'problem' with ancient design lever action firearms, shotguns. Better than talking about the booming gangs and kids rotten with drugs and harming themselves, or indigenous DV.

Labor's Annastasia Palaszczuk is possibly the only political leader in history to have the outlaw motorcycle gangs openly demanding political paybacks for their support in her political campaign that very narrowly won government for Labor in Qld. Her first priority, even above her rush to lower the age for consent for anal sex, was to 'deep six' the successful anti-gang law, the Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment (VLAD) law that was putting the drug manufacturing and trafficking bikies out of business.

There is an election, so Premier Annastasia Palaszczuk rides the LA tragedy to 'ban' a shotgun by tweaking its category. But she and Greens are highly protective of the 'rights' of those drug gangs. Folks, that's 'gun control' for you!

Paul,

I'd be in favour of psychiatric assessment for all MsP, particularly the Greens.
Also in favour of all MsP being checked for drugs and booze before speaking or voting in their relevant Houses.
Not safe to drive a car, then not safe to run a country, or part thereof.

The Yank NRA rep:

"'Oh I know, it was in this thread on October 9 2017 at 10:56:52 PM. The exact figure was 33,636. Whose post was it?

"' Well....I'm afraid it was Is Mise's'"

"Very cute but as usual misleading, that figure includes suicides."

My exact words were "30 thousand-plus Yanks shot dead every year".
What part of that was misleading?

It was the Yank NRA rep, not I, who sought to mislead by confining gun deaths to 11 thousand MURDERS which means Yanks shot dead are not actuality dead unless someone gets convicted of murdering them. The Yank NRA would have a problem explaining, face to face, to the dead person's rellies that their loved one is not really dead and anyway hadn't really been hit by a bullet fired from a gun.

This has just appeared on the ABC "Just In" site

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-11/gun-data-shows-extent-of-private-arsenals-in-suburban-australia/9038350

The ONLY plausible explanation for this network of stashes is that the Yank NRA's NSW chapter is actively preparing for a violent uprising on a parallel with the murderer Jesse James' reign of terror in the USA after the North failed to try and execute the traitors who led the "Confederate" war against America in the 1860s.

The simple answer is NOTHING! FULL STOP!

You see Americans who own guns are of the opinion that guns are not dangerous and when you see the likes of idiots ramming people in trucks then I guess they have a point.

Any US president who dare take away gun ownership rights will most likely be assassinated. That's the problem.

Hi there STEELEREDUX...

I've run out of puff to be honest with you. It's not a topic that will be easily argued or discussed.
Many things in modern life are capable of inflicting fatal injuries or death without resorting to the use of a gun. A carefully timed heavily laden truck can take out at least half a dozen or more on a busy Friday afternoon in a Sydney pedestrian thoroughfare, even more if well planned.

How then can we reduce this type of threat. It's at the base of human nature I'm afraid, surely if a person wishes to render severe harm to others, it's really not that hard to circumvent any and all, security measures designed to prevent it? We're now living in a new age of risk, where even a gun wont be able to protect us!