Paul,

You said that you'd answer, where is your proof for your Green inspired lies?

Steele,

Sounds like you are getting desperate as well, give us another thoughtless rant or two.
Hunting is a legitimate sport and a means of putting fresh and wholesome meat on the table/in the freezer, or do you think that all meat comes in a plastic package from Coles or Woolies?

You should try corned venison, superb.

As an aside, I once bought sausages from Coles and they were so terrible that we could not eat them.
Gave the uncooked ones to the dog, and I swear that when he smelled them, he looked at me, curled his lip and walked off in disgust.

Dear Is Mise,

Rant, sure but mindless? Hardly.

I put a series of quite relevant questions to you and you did not address a single one of them.

Let me try again. If there was a complete economic analysis done on the rising cost of gun ownership and it outstripped the revenue generated by hunters would you agree to it being restricted?

Steele,

"If there was a complete economic analysis done on the rising cost of gun ownership and it outstripped the revenue generated by hunters would you agree to it being restricted?"

Of course I would, and it's already severely restricted, sometimes quite stupidly.

Steele,

"Anyway your economic argument is entirely fatuous. Where have you factored in the rise of gun crime, a direct result of legal weapons entering the criminal system? "

Proof?
There are numerous reports of this practice, all based on guesswork and simplistic reasoning.

"Where have you factored in the increased costs of protecting police against an increasingly armed criminal class?"

Doesn't need factoring in as the police should have sufficient protection for any eventuality, if they do not then the police managment/politicians are at fault.

" Where have you factored in the cost to Victoria in lives that will be the inevitable cost of your organisation's push into this state, the gun club of last resort, the one you go to when you plan on slaughtering your family, the one whose lax standards its own officials warn will result in mass shootings?"

Nowhere because that's in NSW and the discussion is about the Greens' economic recklessness in Victoria, any way the organisations mainly concerned are Victorian ones.

"...the one whose lax standards its own officials warn will result in mass shootings?"
I don't have any information about this at all, how about a link?

Anyway, why do you put any credibility on what he is saying?
Is it because it suits, or because of him being a shooter?

Paul1405,
Cheers mate, thanks for proving me right, owe you one.

//Hunting is a legitimate sport//

Yeah, I'm not so sure about that. I get the legitimate part; it is a legal activity. But sport? I think sport should involve some element of fair competition. And shotguns vs. waterfowl seems like a very one sided affair to me. That seems less sporting to me than taking on a no-legged man in an arse-kicking competition.

//and a means of putting fresh and wholesome meat on the table/in the freezer or do you think that all meat comes in a plastic package from Coles or Woolies?//

Other meat retailers are available.

Yes, my meat does come from the butchers because it's the 21st century and livestock farming and butchery have been around since I don't know when.... you sound a bit like one of those Greens who think we should wind the clock back on a human progress and live in simple agrarian communes, except you want to take us back even further to before the development of agriculture to a hunter-gatherer existence.

Bugger that. I like my food, and I like my fresh, whole, farmed duck. It comes pre-plucked and ready to roast, and it tastes better.