We need to find a way to make stupidity an indictable offence after all, it is stupidity that gives people a poor mentality & makes them do the wrong thing & hurt others !
TV & Media don't do anything to improve the situation either by disregarding the important issues & feasting on the frivolous !

Dear HenryL,

Yup that's the spirit, never let a fact get in the way of a 'gut feeling' no doubt driven by sensationalising media.

Dear Is Mise,

Yeh right. Mate we all know this is about your gun fetish and that the Italian laws are all about profits for the gun industry. Through heavy lobbying they got gun laws stripped which immediately saw a 15% jump in gun permits in the first year. Now in order to achieve further penetration into people's homes they have pushed for eased laws around their use in the case of trespass.

So now if a couple of teenagers break into a blokes orchard to grab some apples they can legitimately be blown away even if they are not armed nor have engaged the owner in any fashion. All the owner has to prove is that he 'perceived' them as a threat.

Well I know the thought of gun manufacturers increasing profits must excite the hell out of you it doesn't do a thing for me.

There is an increase of knife related murders everywhere, yet I still see them for sale in Supermarkets.

Steele,

Are you through reading "Psychology or Beginners" yet?

Issy, SR is still trying to get his head around the fact that anyone would dare question his opinions, because of his 'superiority' over us mere mortals.
The thing that no-one seems to grasp is that if someone is not bent on doing harm or stealing from another, then there is no reason to harm the intruder.
If the intruder is harmed then the law will decide the outcome, otherwise Henry L has the blessing of all us older, and fed up, folks.
The fools who are quick to blame guns on every gun related story, never consider ALL the facts.
If the baddies went around sporting guns the police would jump on them so fast.
We are forever seeing news of someone being stopped and searched and amongst the drugs and the cash, they also found a gun or guns.
So it is not true that if we start hiding guns under the bed that the baddies will start appearing with guns, to 'level the playing field'.
We had the exact same incident happen here in Perth a few years ago.
Two scumbags broke into an old couples home, so the old man grabbed his shotgun and retreated into the master bedroom to protect his sick bedridden wife.
Upon approaching the bedroom door he warned them he had a gun and kept telling them to leave.
It all ended very well, in that he removed another piece of sh!t from society, making it a little safer for all, and managed to protect himself and his wife, which is the ultimate goal.
The idiot/stupid cops then charged him with, who cares, only to find the public really got up the cops and they had to be brought back into reality.
The charges were dropped.
So the moral of the story is, I hope when SR gets old, someone attacks him and whether he would reach for a gun if he knew that just by producing it would send the scum scurrying.
SR's attitude is not one of a do-gooder, just one of a righteous know-it-all.

Hi there INDIVIDUAL...

Indeed, you are so right; edged weapons are being carried by many of our youth as a form of protection and to intimidate others. London in the UK is facing an enormous increase in knife crimes, including many murders, malicious woundings, and holdups. All commissioned at the point of a knife. There's no doubt, we here in Australia will soon be facing the same threat, with the availability of edged weapons of all varieties and types readily available on the open market!

There an old saying among coppers - '...you take a gun to a knife fight...'?