Madang185 wrote:Initially I raised this question of numbers because of the voting implications. I suggest this is now proven to be correct when one looks at the result of the NSW election. When you look at where the Shooters Fishers and Farmer party won seats the implication is clear. Of course there were other issues in the bush such as water.
But I would also suggest that farmers who use firearms on an every day basis and other firearm users are finally delivering a message via the ballot box. It is claimed by former Prime Minister Howard that Australian shooters want US style gun laws.
I disagree and have NEVER heard an Australian legal firearm owner make such a claim. Australian shooters want sane sensible gun laws that attack criminals. One week ago in Melbourne over 3 days there were 6 shooting incidents.
We the licensed shooters are not the problem, the Police, Media and Politicians know this but they continue to attack us instead of the criminals. Meantime the ABC and the politicians continue to shake there collective heads and do not understand why it could possibly happen.
Anybody than even utters the term "US-style gun laws" has no concept of what he's talking about as there is no such thing. Just as our laws vary state by state, so does the US, and they have fifty different iterations of gun law. Some are less strict than some of ours, some are more strict.
I was trying to educate somebody last week that "has no problems with people owning firearms", despite it being "akin to a communicable disease"...clearly meaning he actually has no respect at all for gun owners. This same mental midget believes semi-auto rifles are rightfully banned because they are only used in crime and warfare, despite them being virtually non-existent in crime, outside of the obvious terrorist attacks which will never be affected by any gun laws. Anti-gun people are morons arguing from an entirely hypothetical point of view about a subject they have zero understanding or knowledge of. Like religious nutters that have to do their worshipping in the public eye for it to have any value, these nut jobs are just virtue signalling to stroke their own egos.