Issy, you haven't got one of those Russian walking sticks have you, you know the kind, the ones where you jab them in the leg, and they fall down dead. Great self defence weapon, I use mine all the time!
I really think the local council should do more to clean up the place, all those dead bodies lying around, its getting rather smelly.

p/s That old bag in number 9, she'll never criticize my geraniums ever again. As for the bloke in number 5 with the noisy lawnmower, wait till Sunday morning, he'll feel the sharp end of my stick as well!

Trust our resident Green comic to make fun of cowardly murder.

In other news...

http://www.9news.com.au/2018/08/26/16/10/sofala-teenage-boy-accidentally-shot-with-shotgun-central-west-nsw-property

Poor guy. But it's an unfortunate fact of life that where you have guns you will, sooner or later, have gun accidents. And the number of those accidents is proportional to the number of guns.

So let's keep those numbers as low as possible to try and minimise this sort of accident. After all, is the thrill of blasting some harmless waterfowl out of the sky worth the risk of accidentally causing severe injury to your friends and family?

Hi Toni, Issy will only dismiss the above as not relevant. Another case of one of those law abiding good folk from the gunnie brigade have a momentory laps, when it comes to his firearms.

"Detectives have spoken to a 57-year-old man, but he has since been released. His firearms and firearms licence were seized."

"Investigations continue."

Issy, so you don't believe a poisoned tipped umberalla is an effective self defence weapon?

How about answering my question, I answered yours?

Do you support members of the Australian general public carrying a concealed loaded gun as a means of self defence? If so please explain with some detail.

Paul,

"Do you support members of the Australian general public carrying a concealed loaded gun as a means of self defence? If so please explain with some detail"

No; is that sufficient detail?

Toni,

The same applies to cars and just about everything else that has a potential for danger.

India, bye the way, is becoming choked with cars in the cities and the accident rate is rising.

//The same applies to cars and just about everything else that has a potential for danger.//

Yes, and that's why we regulate them. And I know you say you're in favour of regulation... but when anybody suggests further regulation in Australia, or even in the US where it is clearly desperately needed, suddenly you stop being in favour of regulation and start whining about the jackbooted heel of the state crushing the rights of poor oppressed gun owners.

//India, bye the way, is becoming choked with cars in the cities and the accident rate is rising.//

Yeah, but they're all Asian drivers, what do you expect?