G'day PAUL1405...

You're right. Even if every licensed gun owner were perfectly well adjusted, and responsible firearm owners - there's always the exception, after having some sort of domestic interruption goes rogue with his (licensed) F/A to exact carnage upon the community.

I guess it's a risk you've got to take. To do anything else would needlessly punish those 99.99% law abiding shooters, who do everything that's asked of them. Furthermore the sport of Shooting is very big and world wide, as evidenced by the number of events they have in the Olympic Games?

Paul, I've not got any 'Bright' ideas to help curb these massacres that we see all too often in the US.

I've heard Martin BRYANT has become a real problem in Risdon, Hobart. Though the man is hated and loathed by all the other Inmates, he's behaving in an utterly disgusting fashion, in his attempts to obtain chocolate, his favourite food/snack/sweets.

It would appear he'll do "anything" in order to obtain chocolate. He refuses to wash and shower, preferring to eat all his meals and more...and when all avenues of food sources has been exhausted, he retires to his cell and sleeps. No other inmate will have anything to do with him, save for the 'immediate' sexual relief he'll provide, given chocolate. His weight has burgeoned to over 20 stone or so, and he's capable of intimidating younger prisoners with his immense size.

What on earth can you do with a bloke like him?

Foxy Quote "The stats speak for themselves. And we have the US as a prime example of what not to allow."

BS as I have stated before statistics from US show more people have been saved by someone having a gun than people have been killed by a crazy with a gun. What part of that do you not understand.

What on earth can you do with a bloke like him?

o sung wu,

That is the moral dilemma western society has brought upon itself when life for them gradually became too easy & comfortable that they came up with the idea of compassion to make themselves feel less guilty & therefore better.
These laws did not evolve from natural compassion, they were guilt-driven. Now, of course this feel good compassion is bitting us in the butt & is making our society so vulneable to the point of ruining us.
I think those who are now sharing their days with him & relatives of the victims should be given the moral right & duty to decide his fate. It should literally be out of Government's hands.

Hi there Individual...

My friend I couldn't agree more with you. I've always been an opponent of Capital Punishment, but when it concerns Martin BRYANT, well I'm not so sure? Same as that fruit-loop in Victoria, Julian KNIGHT, killer of seven souls in that Hoddle Street mass shooting in Melbourne. A more arrogant, useless piece of flotsam you'd ever care to meet, a 7.62 cal. right between the eyes is a suitable despatch prerogative in my opinion! He's been nothing but trouble since his initial gaoling, costing Victorian taxpayers millions of dollars, and has now been declared as a 'vexatious litigant' by the Courts. A thoroughly nasty piece of work in my view. One that needs putting down.

Dear Philip S.,

This link is only one of many available on the web
describing how US gun deaths compare to other
countries:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-u-s-gun-deaths-compare-to-other-countries/

o sung wu,
hi again.
There's another option I've put forward on several occasions but no response from anyone.
This option is to let the offender serve time to give them a chance to regret what they did but after a designated time give them the opportunity to get out of their misery & off our tax dollars.
Do what they do with Astronauts, have a glass container with a cyanide capsule inside when there's no other way out.
If offenders, after serving sufficient time feel they can't go on they're free to smash the glass & help themselves to the capsule.