Paul,

"Elderly man who shot home intruder will not be charged
Posted 23 FebFebruary 2009, updated 23 FebFebruary 2009
ABC News.

Police in Perth have decided not to charge a 77-year-old man who shot an intruder during an alleged burglary at his home in Herne Hill.

Police say two intruders forced their way into the home of Eugene Valenti and his bed-ridden wife last Wednesday night.

They say Mr Valenti armed himself with a shotgun, locked himself and his wife in a bedroom and warned the men he was armed.

The men forced their way in and, in the ensuing struggle, a shot was fired, wounding one of them.

Police believe Mr Valenti used reasonable force defending himself and his invalid wife and say his version of events is supported by forensic evidence gathered at the scene.

Inspector Bill Munnee says Mr Valenti discharged the shot during a struggle with the offenders.

"So it wasn't like Mr Valenti was waiting to do a pop shot as they were running away or before they even came in," he said.

"He gave them plenty of warning before they entered his bedroom that he had a firearm, please don't come in.

"When he was telling me the story it was like a scene out of a horror movie, it was your worst nightmare.

"He had a bed-ridden wife and he had nothing else to defend himself with and there was violent force used to enter his property and his door was kicked open."

Why do you and the Greens think that he should not have used the shotgun?
Is it because you think that the criminals should not have been resisted or is it because you believe that criminals have rights that override the rights of law-abiding citizens.

Or is it what?

You had to go a long way back, 2009, and a long way across town, Western Australia, to dig that one out. On balance there is no justification to arm the population Dodge City style as you would like to see. Anyway you only throw up old farts, scrub bulls and such to mask your real objective of being able to carry on your perverted pleasure while calling out "we are so concerned for the community" WHAT RUBBISH! .

Why are you bucketing on that pair of brothers in arms, fellow gunnies from Dixie, those McMichael dudes? Most likely members of your SS parent org the NRA.

It was members of the SS, your mob, at the St Marys Gunnies Club that trained John Edwards, so saying "refused the doctor membership of the pistol club" is nonsense when they trained him in how to kill with a gun.

Paul,

More lies.
"It was members of the SS, your mob, at the St Marys Gunnies Club that trained John Edwards, so saying "refused the doctor membership of the pistol club" is nonsense when they trained him in how to kill with a gun"

They didn't train him to kill with a gun they do target shooting, as you well know.
Now, on the other hand, I was trained to kill noisily with various firearms and silently with the sword, knife, garotte and bare hands at considerable expense to the Australian taxpayer; I was also trained to kill with the shovel, the axe, the steel helmet and the entrenching tool.
Why do you ignore the fact that he got a licence after special approval by the Police Commissioner; doesn't fit the agenda does it.

Regardless of how far and how remote the incidences of self-defence ane why do the Greens insist that a firearm must never be used for such defence when, obviously, the Law allows it.

Are the Greens above the Law?

Why don't they say the same about walking sticks?

//Read all the posts about Weary's pistols//

Is this a new tactic, Is Mise? Bore people into submission?

How'd you go with your moral dilemma? Do you think Mrs. Lone Farmwoman has a moral right to take measures to alleviate her pain after her unfortunate hypothetical trampling by a raging scrub bull?

On the whole, Paul, shooters owe a debt of gratitude to John Howard, the Father of the Australian Gun Lobby (and after whom is named the "JWH" pistol round, a legal round more powerful than the one banned under the weird laws).
Without "Flack Jacket' John we would not have the laws that have brought about a vast rise in the number of shooting clubs, especially pistol clubs and there are now more firearms in civilian hands than before the Great Buy-Back.
It is estimated that there are now more pistols in private hands than at any time in our history.

I think that our gun laws are pretty good, although anomalies exist.

Crime is down, so the logical conclusion is that more guns mean less crime, this is borne out in the USA and conclusively in the case of South Africa where the gun laws are far stricter than the USA but the murder rate is higher and there are fewer guns, so fewer guns means more crime.

"Across most of Western Europe, for example, less than 0.1% of deaths were the result of homicide. Across much of Eastern Europe, North Africa, Asia and Oceania, it was less than 0.5%. In the United States it was 0.7%.

But in some countries the share is much higher. We see particularly high rates across some countries in Latin America. More than 9% of deaths in Honduras were from homicide; more than 8% in Venezuela; 7% in Guatemala; and 6% in Mexico."
http://ourworldindata.org/homicides

Now digest those facts.

Toni,

Have you been practising to be an idiot while you were away?

Seems that success comes easily to you.