So Paul and the Emperor cannot suggest a quick solution to the problem.

Long on rhetoric but short on ideas; or do they think that a teacher's best defence is a cell phone (mobile) and a quick call to 999 (000)?

"European countries such as Belgium, France and the Netherlands have even stricter gun control laws than Australia does, but their mass public shooting rates are at least as high as those in the United States."

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/23/us-gun-control-advocates-exaggerate-benefits-australias-gun-restrictions.html

Is Lott wrong?
Are Belgium, France and the Netherlands not part of the civilized world?

These and other questions will be answered shortly by Paul and the Emperor.

Nah Issy, try 911.

Issy, your attempts to convince us that having every lunatic in the community running around with a fully loaded automatic weapon and thousands of rounds of ammunition, and it is as safe as houses, is not working.
We know who the lunatic fringe in Australia is, its the members of SSAA. I bet your mates from the 'wild west shoot em' up show' are all fully paid up.

Paul,

Frustrating, is it not, to be faced with a question to which you know the answer but to be not game enough to give it.

//Is Lott wrong?//

Whatever, Is Mise. If you can't see that there's a problem in the US, at the end of the day I don't think anybody cares that much.

But if you think that Australian voting public are going to sit back and let weirdos lead us down the American path, I think you're on a hiding to nothing. We're all far too accustomed to not being shot at, not being woken at night by the sounds of gunshots followed by screaming sirens, not having to worry about guns in our day-to-day lives unless we fall in with a really bad crowd (which is our own silly fault).

I've always been fond of the advice of the great Australian band TISM: "Australia, don't become America."

Toni,

I can see that there is a problem but it is a diminishing problem.

Some around here think that they have a solution but their solutions are long term, what's needed to fix the school massacre problem short term?

Any suggestions?

There are already schools in Australia that have Security Guards and crash proof fences but these are private measures; what are Australian Governments doing about protecting school children?