Dear Is Mise,

Sometimes mate your posts are so bloody repugnant they want to make me puke. A “heartwarming Mother's Day story”.

Well there was one mother for whom it certainly wasn't.

You sick little man.

And you sit there with a figurative justice boner because of it? In a country with nearly 20 million people living in deep poverty and equally deep inequality?

This is what guns have done to that country;

“One out of 10 homicide victims around the world each year is a Brazilian. Most of the roughly 60,000 Brazilian citizens violently killed each year die from gunshot wounds. And the majority of the guns doing the killing were made in Brazil. The country is the fourth-largest firearms and ammunition manufacturer on the planet.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/03/30/opinion-brazil-murder-gun-problem/99814550/

And here you are reveling in it.

Plus you want the same for us.

You sit here in our safe country behind you safe little keyboard bringing us stories from around the world which feed your fetish. It really is a version of pornography for you isn't it.

Just nick off.

Well Issy, thanks to Steele I think you have been well and truly creamed as far as using Brazil as an example of utopianism, where guns rule society.

As far as Australia is concerned its time to tighten up on who is licensed to possess a firearm. There are too many licenses issued for rather dubious purposes, and that is a concern. I support the military and police possessing guns in the execution of their duty, but certainly under the most stringent controls. The use of firearms for "recreational" and "amateur" purposes needs careful examination.

Christmas is not that far away, maybe you will have another heartwarming gun story from another one of the worlds shite holes which we in Australia can get all warm and fuzzy about, just like you do.

//The point is that this defensive shooting didn't rate a mention in main stream media//

It did, you daft twat. Have a look at your own link: it's from the Daily Mail, Britain's 2nd highest selling daily newspaper. Please, do enlighten us as to how the Daily Mail fails to count as main stream media.

This should be amusing.

Oh, BTW, have you figured yet how you might convince the man on the Clapham omnibus that secretly, deep down inside, he really does want to be shot and that he just doesn't consciously realise it?

Oh well, give it a bit more thought...

Toni,

The Daily Mail isn't Australian MSM, or didn't you notice?
"I do love the way Is Mise keep[s] digging up these stories from countries with much higher rates of gun violence than Oz, "

Paul,

The Mothers' Day angle is all the mothers and children that the policewoman saved, they are far more important than the criminal's mother whom Steele is concerned about.

Steele,

If you don't like me then the 'Dear' and "mate' are superfluous.
" ... bringing us stories from around the world..."
To you and Toni, what stories?

Has no one got anything to say about a shooting like this not being possible in Australia, thanks to the Howard gun laws?

//The Daily Mail isn't Australian MSM//

You didn't say anything about Australian main stream media, just main stream media. Shifting the goalposts already? I knew this would be amusing.

The Daily Mail is about as main stream as it gets, Is Mise. The fact that it's based in Britain doesn't really count for much in the age of the internet - I listen to more BBC radio than I do Australian radio. How much more main stream than the Mail do you want?

//"I do love the way Is Mise keep[s] digging up these stories from countries with much higher rates of gun violence than Oz//

Sorry, what? Are you trying to dispute that the story being discussed occurred in Brazil?

Did you and Paul have the same geography teacher? It's just that you both seem to have a blind spot when it comes one of the largest countries on Earth. Look, here it is on a map:

http://ontheworldmap.com/south-america/political-map-of-south-america.jpg

It's the big green one on the right. Do yourself a favour and look it up on wikipedia.

//To you and Toni, what stories?//

Sounds like you've got a touch of the Alzheimer's there, Is Mise. Don't you remember? Because everybody else seems to....