Issy, did we touch a raw nerve?

Why don't you rebut the point Toni is marking?

//the St Mary’s Indoor Shooting Centre could have refused his application for exactly the same reason that the Ku-Ring-Gai club did. But they chose not to.//

Put up the evidence that the St Mary's Indoor Shooting Centre was FORCED to accept Edwards as a member. Just who held a gun to their heads.

The culpability in this lies with all three, politicians for making weak laws in the first, the coppers for being incompetent and the gunnies for taking on an obvious nutter without question.

Call David Shoebridge what you like. The man has to his credit not wavered from the fight with the gun freaks over firearm laws, despite abuse and threats of all kinds.

The pair of smug bastards sitting in the NSW LC supposedly representing the gun freaks of NSW, could lean a lesson from David.

//The SSAA has plenty of money// I would agree Issy as the Australian chapter of the Yankee NRA they are well looked after financially by the parent.

//That's right, that's why some of us formed The Shooters' Party//

The pair of fruit loops they have sitting in the NSW LC make those wild west clowns of yours look normal.

Paul,

"//The SSAA has plenty of money// I would agree Issy as the Australian chapter of the Yankee NRA they are well looked after financially by the parent. "

There's that unsubstantiated furphy again; when are you going to stop
the BS and give some proof?

In a gun club, as in the police force, when the Commissioner says "Jump!", the only question is "How high?"

What threats have been made against David Shoebridge, and by whom?

I do note that Shoebridge does not seem to be blaming the gun club.

Just as a point of interest, why are people not using quotation marks ("...") for quotations?

Seems strange.

//In a gun club, as in the police force, when the Commissioner says "Jump!", the only question is "How high?"//

A Commissioner's permit does not require a gun club to admit anybody they don't want to. It just waives P650 requirements. You are talking bollocks.

//Just as a point of interest, why are people not using quotation marks ("...") for quotations?

Seems strange.//

Depends what I'm quoting. See, if I was to quote an excerpt from an external source I'd use quotation marks. But when I'm quoting from previous posts within a thread, I'm used to forums (fora?) with slightly more advanced web design than this outdated place. Most of them have a feature that allows one to easily and readily cite a previous post. Good example here, with 'glenwal' quoting a previous post from 'Rod' in a fascinating discussion about crushing grain for home brewing:

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/threads/how-to-crush-a-small-amount-of-grain.64087/#post-901522

But OLO was obviously created when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the Grahamosaurus Regina hasn't seen fit to update it. So I creatively adapt punctuation to serve my own needs.

Paul,

"The culpability in this lies with all three, politicians for making weak laws in the first, the coppers for being incompetent and the gunnies for taking on an obvious nutter without question."

But did they take him on without question?

Any evidence for that?

So the gun laws are weak, seems like you think that Howard's laws are a failure, not something that you conceded in the past?

Was Edwards an obvious nutter?
He seemed to present well to the Fire fighters and to the Financial community and had a successful business; hardly the outward marks of one of mental deficiency.

But then you and Steele found this to be a golden opportunity to savage the law-abiding with whom you disagree, pity that you lower yourselves to score points via murdered children; sleep soundly.