"Anyone convicted of a violent crime should not have access to guns.

Or axes, hatchets, golf clubs, cricket bats, cutlery, chain saws, hammers, chisels. screwdrivers, fishing line etc., blunt instruments and cars and trucks, all of which have been used to murder.

First define violent crime.

I would add; what to do about people who have been trained, at Government expense, to kill?

Both loudly with guns and explosives and silently with their bare hands, knives, shovels and other silent instruments; there are many thousands of these trained killers in our communities.

BEWARE!!

Is Mise I was as a pilot trained to use unarmed combat, knives & other less obvious weapons, to kill silently to aid my escape if shot down behind enemy lines. I was also armed & trained in the use of all small arms, if necessary to use if a more noisy escape attempt was required.

I was likewise trained in shooting down aircraft, & the sinking of ships with the weapons issued to me. I would happily have done this in the event of hostilities.

You know, all that training has not made me ever want to kill anyone, shoot down a friendly aircraft, or sink a ship yet. If it has not roused such a desire in the last 60 years, I think it is highly unlikely to do so now. In fact I have not in those 60 years had the urge to even mildly hurt anyone, not even our lefties here.

I think it is unreasonable to think that, just because someone was trained in the defense of our country, & prepared to risk their lives in so doing, that they are any more likely to be aggressive to their fellow citizens.

people who have been trained, at Government expense, to kill?
Is Mise,
You mean the ones you'll run to crying for help when the time comes ?

Hasbeen,

"I think it is unreasonable to think that, just because someone was trained in the defense of our country, & prepared to risk their lives in so doing, that they are any more likely to be aggressive to their fellow citizens."

Precisely, and if their chosen sport is with firearms then there is no reason to stop them enjoying it, they aren't going to run amuck.

Individual,

"You mean the ones you'll run to crying for help when the time comes ?"
I won't do that at all, I'm one of the ones that the Government trained to kill and, like Hasbeen I've never felt the urge to use my skills against any fellow citizens.

Tomorrow I'll be on the pistol range doing a bit of practice and then some competition in my chosen sport.

Nothing to see here, deflection, the what if's, strawman arguments. Every time there is a tragedy involving guns, the gunnie ratbags can be relied upon to wheel out their usual array of nonsense with the objective of maintaining the proliferation of guns in the community. Some of these gun nutters even believe children as young as five should have the right to bear arms. They take their lead from the American constitution with the Australian chapter the SSAA under the influence of the powerful American organisation the NRA. Unfortunately Australia's band of gun nuts repeat the same perversion as what they have been indoctrinated with by the NRA from America.