//Nice to see people making fun of the dead, Toni.//

Et tu, brute.

Yank NRA asks: "How do you stop an armed man, intent on slaughter?"

Ans: You don't. Best you can do is make it difficult for someone intent on slaughter to be armed with a gun. That's what John Howard did when Martin Bryant slaughtered people because he could get hold of a gun.

Now, starting today February 25 2018, we can do better to "out" the public enemies who are clamouring for the power that Martin Bryant had.

There has been a blow up at the under 9's footy match, little Johnny's old man called Freddie's father a f-wit after Johnny was disallowed a try. A 911 call has gone through to the senior citz centre. A bus load of well armed members of the pensioner militia led by 96 year old Dementia Dave is racing to the scene, carnage is expected as Dave and the old folks give no quarter, shoot first, and ask questions later. All in the name of keeping the community safe, now we can rest in our beds in peace, knowing Dave and the old folks are out there protecting us from harm. Gee, I just heard the unmistakable fire of M16's in the local park.

Paul: Zero.

Emperor: just minus altogether.

Keep having your little jollies at the expense of the dead.

//Trump's solution//

Isn't a solution, Mr. Iceberg lettuce (I couldn't think of any fruits that started with 'i', so you're a vegetable instead). It's not his, either. It's been proposed in the wake of previous school shootings by various lunatics. Just because it's been wheeled out on this occasion by Trump doesn't suddenly make it a good idea.

But I think Trump is probably aware of all that and was never intending it as a real solution anyway. He wanted to make a controversial and attention grabbing statement that would gain lots of media attention and provide a convenient smokescreen behind which to do absolutely nothing about the problem. I very much doubt his proposal will amount to anything, but that doesn't matter because it's not meant to be a solution, just a distraction.

It's a very transparent strategy: get all the anti-gun crowd so riled up over a silly red herring that they focus entirely on keeping guns out of the hands of teachers, and forget about trying to keep them out of the hands of deranged murderers. Do you reckon anyone will fall for it? I have enough faith in Americans that they'll be able to see through such an obvious and desperate ploy.

Yank NRA tries: "Trump's solution is being lambasted in the media but no one is offering an alternative short term solution.
Can it be that there isn't one?"

No there isn't. So we don't wait passively for an enemy like Martin Bryant or any of the vocal wannabe Martin Bryants to gun us down.

We work to put them out of business and keep them out of business. Countless Australians are alive today because John Howard did just that.

Best thing most Australians can do is support toughening of measures to keep the enemy unarmed, a deadly voice with no gun to back it up. There, Mr Enemy, is a useful idea.