This is a bulletin to all the intelligent, mature, pragmatic and objective of the commentors on OLO.
Is it just me, or has the tone of OLO, really gotten ridiculously immature and childish lately.
I present to you Mr O's latest submission.
And Paul, is not far behind.
Is it reasonable to complain about the level of immaturity on this medium, or am I expecting too much.
I much prefer the angst and abuse rather than the childish jibes and quips of 5 year old's.

Porky,

Who said anything about loaded guns in the house?

More Green obfuscation, just tell us why the Greens think that women alone in a country homestead should face more restrictions than the law requires?

Truth is the Greens don't give a damn about the safety of women if it hurts their beloved ideology.

ALTRAV,

The thing that you find upsetting is that you don't like being poked fun at.

I'm afraid that it is something that all of you AGW denialists are just going to have to get used to from now on as more and more people begin to acknowledge that the burning of fossil fuels is the root cause of the 2019/20 bushfire catastrophe.

What do you think about your mate Soot 'Beam up me Scotty' Morrison taking a tumble in the polls? Got his just deserts as far as I'm concerned. But now he wants to be seen as a climate change warrior. Did you catch his video with him being shown as the New Winston Churchill?

I told you you couldn't demonstrate you know what. Don't worry it was going to happen sooner or later. You put up a good fight but truth always wins out in the end.

Mr Opinion,
More CO2 has been put into the atmosphere by arsonists in the last month than all the fossil fuel burnt in Australia in the last 12 months.
Beside:
1. The White Island volcano NZ,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_93KoBrZEwY
2. The Volcano Indonesia http://www.nbcnews.com/video/indonesia-s-mount-sinabung-volcano-erupts-61605445991
3. The volcano Philippines
http://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/12/asia/taal-volcano-eruption-philippines-trnd/index.html
These have contributed to this area vast amount of CO2 and methane, and sulphur into the atmosphere.

Porky,

"Lets cut to the chases on this gun business you continually raise. You have no interest in the so called protection of the vulnerable, but have a lot of interest in getting your rocks off through unrestricted access to firearms. The vulnerable are simple pawns to be exploited by the gun brigade as a means to an end."

You know as well as I do that the SF&F Party and all the other shooters' organizations love the gun laws, without those laws we'd have far fewer facilities, no political clout and about one percent of the current income.

Without the gun laws initiated by John Howard, the father of the Australian gun lobby, we'd have ceased to exist for all practical purposes.

So cut the BS.

Paul I had a 22 rifle at age 12. I left it at home when I moved to Sydney.

Later the navy trusted me first with 4 of 0.5 inch machine guns, a couple of 20mm cannon, & 6 of 4 inch armor piercing rockets. Later they gave me a whole destroyer for 4 hours at a time, with 6 of 4.5 inch guns, capable of blowing up your house at about 8 miles. Would you believe I never shot a house.

In the early 70s I walked into a Big W, or a Kmart, I can't remember which, & bought an air rifle, to frighten the swallows off my yachts life lines, they could put an inch of stinking droppings under their perch per night, a 22 for hunting, & a 12 gauge shot gun. That using solid rounds proved very useful for shooting down complete hands of coconuts in the islands.

Anyone could have done it, no identification required, just the money in your hand. Amazingly with such availability of guns, there was not much shooting of neighbors or friends. In fact more people are killed with the cowards one punch, or seriously injured by a glass or knife today, than were shot back in the 70s.

The 22 got a workout when I was breeding horses. The council demand I keep my dogs locked up, but did nothing to lock up the wild dogs that tried to attack my foals. I haven't had it out for about 12 years now, but I keep the licence just in case my daughter decides to bread her show jumper mare as she threatens.

You have to stop being frightened of inanimate objects Paul, greeny caused bush fires are much more dangerous.