The vast majority of illegal guns in the community start their life as legal weapons in the hands of so called law abiding gun owners. Unfortunately these weapons are so often mysteriously lost or stolen, and you wouldn't want to know it, they end up in the hands of criminals. If a criminal wants a gun there are plenty of law abiding citizens, probably SSAA members and Shooters and Hooters voters, ready, willing and able to meet the demand, at a price of course.

Issy 99% of the population should not be armed due to the so called risks faced by the other 1%.

You didn't answer my question; Did you back the Greens to win. Ignoring the bloody obvious I see. I checked the vote YOUR MOB got 0.1% of the national vote, they are a laughing stock!

Hi Foxy, my friend was on Q&A this week, gave that Liberal wally Alexander Downer some stick. BTW; Stephen had a late serge of absentee votes in BRISBANE and overtook Labor by 600 votes to win the seat from the Liberals. I thought he was a gonner yesterday as Labor moved into second position with a strong flow of pre-poll votes.

Hi there STEELEREDUX...

To set a man alight, AFTER he complied with the robbers demands to give them access to the gun safe! Surely not, but it happened!

I'll admit nothing herein Steele; But when I was still with the detectives, a unique form of justice would prevail. And the malefactors concerned, would quickly learn the folly of their violent ways?

Police brutality! The LEFT would wail? And what of the brutality that's visited up, this burnt victim? Or the many other cases we hear of, almost daily; Sexually assaulted, women and girls. Their lives destroyed forevermore. I know, I've spent hours with some of the survivors of these horrendous ordeals. What about their friggin' justice!

And some obsequious defence Barrister, will endlessly examine, under oath, the evidence of some of these hapless victims, on their sexual antecedents, for all to see, and hear. As if it's rubbing more salt into a festering wound. A wound she'll carry for the rest of her life.

Mate, our whole justice system is cockeyed my friend, and badly so.

I'm so glad I've retired, I couldn't do that thankless task for a moment longer.

Despite the outdated notion that the Americans feel the need for a "well-armed militia" to protect themselves from foreign invaders, they now need guns to protect themselves from each other.

They are a sick society trapped by their unquenchable lust for firearms and love their guns more than they do each other and they consider that to be the definition of Freedom.

I refer to the NRA cult as "Ammosexuals".

Dear o sung wu,

You are of course not going to hear from me support for police delivering summary justice but faced with such utterly depraved conduct I do understand the temptation.

It isn't even a form of callousness but rather it speaks to a deep malevolence which is hard for the ordinary person to fathom. It must have been a very confronting part of the job to have to deal with such characters.

There is no excuse for the issuing of "summary justice" by police, without trial and without proper consideration of the evidence. Too often coppers set themselves up as judge, jury and executioner which makes them no better than the criminals they are employed to police. Often the so called "summary justice" involves an element of hate, which has often been the case with Aboriginal arrests, leading to deaths in custody.

I've heard statistics that there are more deaths in custody for whites- but there you go.