Paul,
I haven’t given up on protection as a stand alone reason for owning a firearm because I never embraced that policy, nor have I accepted Greens’ policy because it is utterly stupid. What I do accept and am thankful for is the current law.
The Shooters party policy to which you refer doesn’t need to go into minute detail regarding age as this is already covered by the law. So stop trying to be smart.
Personally I hope the authorities in the relevant State hit the parents really hard as contributors to the tragedy, I’ve just read some of it and it looks as if the school authorities also contributed a bit of negligence.
I’m all in favour of firearms being locked away.

Issy,

I'm not being smart, when any political party puts up policy it has to be watertight, otherwise detractors will shoot holes in it. Labor policy is always under attack on the score of credibility. I know you don't support gun toting 5 year olds, but read Shooters policy and it's just as open as Greens policy.

Ise Mise

Nelson Mandela was a convicted terrorist bomb-maker and even after his release from prison refused to denounce the use of violence as a political weapon.

Gandhi was a wife beater who was cruel to his children and had a "thing" for very young girls. He was also a strong supporter of Apartheid and despised blacks as being "lazy and indolent".

Yet we rightfully remember those two people for their achievements and not who they are as people. Some people make a positive contribution to society and others don't.

It's not who you are but the things that you do in life that matter.

Your Nazi heroes are and will always be remembered for what they did too. Hitler may have written poetry and been kind to puppies but who cares about that?

You seem a member of the Proud Boys spouting their propaganda or a contrarian troll.

Rittenhouse deliberately and provocatively put himself in a situation where lives would be threatened, including his own.

Foxy et al.

That both Hitler and Goering both received the iron cross for bravery was instrumental in giving them the influence they needed to rise to power. While neither were heroes nor deserving of any respect trying to airbrush this out of history does no one any favours.

As for mass murder, both were rank amateurs compared to Stalin who was a convicted bank robber before killing about 20m of his own countrymen prior to WW2 or Mao who killed about 50m in his cultural revolution.

rache,
Science fiction is often instructive and entertaining but Time Travel is the only way that the future can alter the past and that’s highly unlikely.
Anyone who stayed in action in WW1 was brave and there is no doubt that Hitler and Goering were brave in WW1.
The evil that they did later can in no way affect their deeds in that earlier war, only ignorant fools would think so

Whatever Rittenhouse may have done, short of an illegal action that threatened life, prior to his being attacked has no bearing on his defence of himself against unlawful attack, provocation is no excuse for attacking anyone.

shadowminister,

Everything in perspective:

http://abdn.ac.uk/news/3757/