Toni,

"If I know you, you'll have some daft hair-splitting excuse for this claim like licences only being required on public roads (i.e. where the public drive). I look forward to it."

Nothing hair splitting at all, a licence is only required to drive on public roads and there are exceptions to that, in some cases a competent person may drive on the public roads, legally, without a licence.

Not so with guns, so any analogy falls flat.

Given the subject under discussion any joke is tasteless.

Paul,

"..., but at what cost. I see even more innocents being wasted through accidents, and in some cases misadventure from rough teachers, or the wrong person getting their hands on a state issued gun."

Didn't you read the answer that I gave you earlier?

Smart guns overcome those objections, with smart guns there are no accidents.

"Issy, I and others have pointed out yhat there is no quick fix to the systemic problem the US has now with out of control gun deaths."

I'm not talking about a quick fix but what an individual teacher can do to stop a murderer.
You and others seem to be quite happy that teachers should have no chance to defend themselves.
You all know that the one thing that could save them is something that would enable them to kill their attacker but you don't have the guts to admit it.

Thankfully more and more US Legislators are coming to realize that a teacher should have a chance to defend their self and the kids

Dear Is Mise,

You really need to put a sock in it mate. You keep banging on about a poor bloody teacher you have set up with having to defend against some psychopath with a gun which has come into his hands because of the type of society you want for us. When we give you answer after answer you keep going because none of them satisfy your sick agenda.

You want guns to be allowed in virtually all Australian homes for self defense. I am watching the excellent Bowling for Colombine and remembering the six year old who went to his kindergarten and shot and killed a little girl.

You are a dangerous selfish person.

Steele,

Of course, I keep on about it because no one, yourself included, has answered the question.

It is really very simple, how do you think that a teacher, faced with a murderer trying to enter the classroom, could defend their self and the children.
Not ten years down the track, but immediately.

Do you really think that no Australian should be allowed to have anything for self-defence?

Have you ever faced anyone who was pointing a loaded gun at you and had every intention of killing you?

Dear Is Mise,

Okay, I'm a sucker for a clown.

I think she should press the red button on her desk which will drop down a bullet proof security screen, much like those deployed in banks, thus protecting herself and her students from the psychopath who has been weaponised by people like yourself.

Will that do?

Steele,

Yes, that will do because all that I've been asking for is your solution, and you've given one; not much good though if she is at the blackboard or out in a corridor.

Is Mise,

I watched Michael Moore's film last night -
"Bowling for Columbine," and
could not help wondering why don't so many
guns in the United States make it a much
safer place? Every man and his dog seems to
have a gun in that country.

As for the colour of Mr Heston's tie that had
you concerned? To tell you the truth I did not
even notice the colour of his tie. I was so
absorbed in the film itself. And the entire
awfulness of what was happening in the country.
I hope this never comes to Australia.