Valkie
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Any one in Australia can get hold of a gun with no problem.
Illegal guns are readily available everywhere and really quite cheap.
In fact, several guns handed in to the farcical gun buy back scheme were later used in crime, so the criminals inhabit even those who are meant to protect us.
In saying this, I don't like guns. Only cowards and mentally retarded want guns, we no longer have to protect ourselves from wild animals (Criminals excluded, however its usually them that have the guns) Why anyone gets off on shooting things completely eludes me. But I do defend a persons right to legally own anything that is legal to own.
Many years ago, before our politicians became the cowardly idiots they are today. As a Scout, we carried knives everywhere. My father carried a small pocket knife all his life. These were not weapons, they were tools, to open things and eat apples etc. Now its illegal to even carry a silly little 1 inch Victronox knife to skin fruit. Have we become so afraid of everything? have we lost the ability to see that some people are innocent until proven guilty?
Our leaders now ban everything, we are far too over regulated. It should be legal to carry a tool, and the law (I use that term loosely) should come down heavily on any who abuse that tool. But that's too hard. Far easier to say....blanket ban.
Whats next? Will we need to register every tool we may carry? That will probably come to pass in the future, after all, there may be some revenue in building a database of tool used by tradesmen, with a small fee of course.
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