Rabbit Assasin;
I know it's impossible to infer my tongue in cheek comment about Aussies being wimps from what I wrote but that's what I was thinking when I wrote it. I was there for two years during which time the guy in Tasmania went loony. I saw the way your government just trampled your rights without gun owners having a word to say. Your top guy (priminister, I think) just said "to hell with you, we are going to ban them and you can't do a thing about it!" Makes me glad we don't have your system of government over here (by-the-way, this "save the queen cra*" has got to go!). Maybe Diana is(was) OK but the rest of them can take a flying leap! Why would anyone have allegiance to England? What a God forsaken, psudo-socialist country that is!
At any rate, I worked for a bunch of yanks but as soon as work was over I spent my time with the Aussies. Even married one! It was a real paradox as the best times of my life were there along with the worst times. I grew to really like the Aussies that I knew personally. What I saw as your undoing was that you do not have an American style 2nd Amendment and that many were/are media brain washed. All you need is some highly publicised events where a person goes into a school, sprays the children with gasoline, kills a bunch and maims a bunch more. Then as gun owners you can say "guns aren't the problem, it's the people behind them!" Spread it around as an idea on how to kill (just like the media does with its portrayal of gun violence). Sooner or later some loony will do it and prove once and for all that you don't need a gun to kill if your mind is set to it. HHMMMMMM? Tragic, isn't it? It's reprehensible for you to spread that idea around, isn't it? Then why does the media promote violence with the use of a gun? Why not show how to kill with other means...... and make it glorious, just like the media does.