Foxy, you will stir up Paul with that anti-Republican comment. I know what you mean - the Queen does not represent herself but the Westminster Constitution upon which our laws are made. To which John Howard reflected in making the gun laws.

Josephus,

No it won't always be the case if we let
organizations like the NRA in.

Keep Australia safe from the American gun
influence.

Foxy,
Which scenario would you rather be in; Have a gun & shoot someone that clearly means to harm you or have no gun & be robbed or shot by them ?

individual,

If neither of us had a gun - there wouldn't
be a problem would there?

Foxy,
I'll let other OLO'ers reply to your reply !

The U.S. has more gun crime than we do because its population is 13 times the size of ours; more crime of all sorts. Keep up multiculturalism and mass immigration, and we will gradually catch up, with more people feeling the need for firearms (legal or illegal) to protect themselves.

On violence, I note that the NZ PM is shyer about discussing the SRI LANKAN terrorist who was on a watch list than she was about the Australian one, who caused her to perform all manner of politically-inspired virtue signalling, even anti-white racism bombast.