If we had a National Service we'd have a better mentality througout & fewer problems & definitely less violence. A lot of violence is stupidity based & some for want of a better description is harrassment based by authorities.
If someone "loses it" straght away it's mental illness. It is not, it is people being pushed too far by idiots who mill around doing a lot of harm & are fully protected.
I can't see why anyone ould morally justify owning a high powered gun for spot/target shooting. An air rifle is enough for that. Bushwalkers need something powerful for obvious reasons as do farmers & people frequenting areas of dangerous to humans wildlife. City dwellers should only have guns for target shooting clubs & they should be allowed to brandish & if the need arises use them as a deterrent to intruders. Self defence must not be a criminal offence no matter what kind of weapon is used.

More dangerous than guns is Green’s Adam Bandt congratulating Fitzroy High School for instructing 12 year olds on how to send nude pictures of themselves. The school has a course called The Art Of Safe Sexting as part of its ‘safe’ schools obsession. He and the Marxist wackos running the school are apparently not aware that sending or receiving naked photos of people under the age of 18 was a criminal offence.

Issy, is that your only concern in this matter, how one spells Merrylands, or is that Marylands, I write my own material. Obviously you accept my assertion that there is a need for stringent and exhaustive mental assessments of would be gunnies seeking a licence, and as well, on going annual mental assessments of all licence holders. I believe mental assessments are vital if the community is to be protected from these nutters. The cost is irrelevant, if it costs $1000 or more per year, per licence, then the new applicant, or the existing licence holder pays the full cost, even if they fail! You cannot put a price on public safety.
As a reasonable person I believe you will agree with me on this one.

Foxy you are very wrong on that one.

Drunks & druggies, causing road accidents do kill, & they kill a lot more people than citizens with guns, even in the USA.

I have owned one or more gun for 60 years now, & you know, not one of them ever killed anyone. Hell I have at least 30 friends who's guns have never killed anyone.

Many of them have put food on the table, protected young stock, in my case my foals, eliminated predators, put down injured wildlife, & injured, infirm or diseased pets.

In passing I did once have a vet give a much loved cancer ridden horse a lethal injection, & having seen the result, swore I would always use a gun in future. Believe me, the animals I have had to put down, & used my rifle, died with much less pain than that horse.

Our government used to believe they could trust me with a plane with 6 quite big guns, & 8 explosive rockets. Hell they even put me in charge for 4 hours at a time of 6 very big, [4.5" actually] guns, capable of knocking down quite a bit of Sydney quite quickly, yet some people think I & many others like me, can't be trusted with a pop gun or a pea shooter today.

david f Howard made the worst mistake of his life in disarming the population. Some of your decendents will pay a very high price for that bit of gutless stupidity.

And where did you read that ttbn, in your copy of the 'Volkischer Beobachter'? Do you have it home delivered daily?

Yes as much as my memory of Howard is tainted by work choices he did very well in this area, we will never sink to the level of Americas gun lobby and there and here the debate should be about the rights of gun victims first