Toni,

Your Majesty, you seem to have missed the sarcasm.

Steele,

"Sure there is an issue if there is double counting going on for instance counting barrels and frames for the same syndicate separately however they are perfectly justified in saying confiscation of either prevents those weapons hitting the streets."

Be that as it may, 5,600 down to 6 is pretty creative accounting.

"Last week we had a small country town near us experience someone shooting at another couple with a handgun. An acquaintance who has lived there his entire life can not recall this having occurred in the 70 odd years he has resided there."

Reference, please?
Was the pistol registered?
Was the firer licenced?

All relevant if we are to evaluate your claim.

Dear Is Mise,

You asked;

Was the pistol registered?
Was the firer licenced?

Don't know as the shooter has not been found. The shots were fired at a man and a woman in a parked stolen car.

But what does that have to do with anything. A growing gun culture in this country is driving the arming of our criminals.

Under your prescription only fully functioning firearms are to be counted? Don't be an idiot. It is not a reduction from 5,000 to 6 unless you want to ignore the fact that these weapons are being disassembled to smuggle them into the country. That might be convenient for your propaganda or spin but it is totally ludicrous.

Go find some real news to get fired up about.

Steele, surly you would rather die from a bullet fired by a registered 'LOG', short for Lunatic Operating Gunnie, who after all, and according to Issy. is a "rusted" old fart who is a cut above the rest of us. In that way we can engrave the LOG's licence number on your headstone. It is important to us, but I don't know how you feel about it? (sarcasm just for Issey's edification)

We should all feel grateful, and rest assured. knowing that the good folk of the SSAA Legislative Department (they have their own department you know) are working tirelessly deep down in the basement under Gunnie HQ, located inside Issy's 'Burgers and Bullets' franchise in the little hamlet of Numskull. These good folks, LOG's one and all, spend 24/7 fact checking, dissemination all the non pro gunnie nonsense and presenting the true facts as presented by the not so liberal, no so democratic, and well cashed up, thanks to lots of gunnie money, Senator Dumbo Dave.

Nothing to do with this thread. People in glass houses should not throw stones, Issy what is the use of the word "rusted", What does oxidized people have to do with the Federal government? Get yourself a dictionary, get yourself a spell checker! Now we are even.

//Toni,

Your Majesty//

OK, it appears I have been in error. I thought you a reasonably intelligent bloke except for your blindspot when it comes to firearms. Apparently you're just a bit slow in general.

See, when somebody makes a statement that is clearly nonsense on stilts, e.g. 'That Peter Dutton fella is a nice chap' and somebody follows it up with 'Yeah, right, and I'm [insert thing that they clearly aren't]' then that is a way of sarcastically disputing the original claim. So if somebody says 'Commercial kangaroo harvesting is unsustainable and will lead to the rapid demise of wild kangaroo populations' somebody might follow it up with 'Sure mate, and I'm the Pope'. Now chances are that person is not the Pope. There can only ever be one Pope at a time (any extras are Antipopes), and we've already got one. So unless the person saying 'Sure mate, and I'm the Pope' is Pope Francis (which is unlikely), then that statement is false. They are not the Pope. They are drawing a comparison between the absurdity of them being the Pope and the absurdity of believing that wild roos are on the brink of extinction.

There is no country called 'Sheba'. It's possible there never was, but if it did exist it was long before I was born. It's logically impossible for me to be the monarch of a country that doesn't exist. It's also impossible for me to be the female monarch (i.e. Queen) when I'm male - I'd be King of Sheba if there was actually a Sheba and I was actually its monarch.

So you see, I wasn't actually declaring myself to be the Queen of Sheba. Note that I didn't say 'I'm the Queen of Sheba', I said 'Yeah, sure fellas, and I'm the Queen of Sheba.' - the 'Yeah, sure fellas, and...' is a way of indicating that the truth of that statement is contingent on the previous statement. Your references to me as 'Your Majesty' indicate that the meaning of my statement about being the Queen of Sheba has gone right over your head. I wasn't trying to put on airs and graces by awarding myself a title to which I am not entitled, a fact that you don't seem to have managed to grasp. I was drawing a comparison between the absurdity of myself being the (possibly entirely fictional) female monarch of a nation that - if it ever existed - certainly doesn't exist anymore, and the obvious absurdity of the notion of gun nuts being willing to provide advice about sensible, fair and evidence-based firearms laws. When have gun nuts ever done that before?

Today's public frog vivisection is proudly supported by Is Mise's alma mater, the Midvale School for the Gifted.

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Toni, if you are not the Queen of Sheba, which I did for a moment believe you were, although I had an uncle Bert, he drove a truck. Sorry I digress, uncle Bert would often exclaim "by crikey, I must be the Queen of Sheba!". Now I did believe for many years uncle Bert was in fact the Queen of Sheba. As uncle had no legitimate children, although he was quite the ladies man, in his stubbies and blue single, boots and footy socks, beer belly budging, gray hair thinning, front teeth missing, two days of stubble on his queenly face, he exuded a certain air of regalness, that other family members, such as myself, could only aspire to, Prince Charles excluded.
Now if you are not the Queen of Sheeba, and since uncle Bert has passed on, that means I'm still in with a chance. Yes?