Post by tom on May 8, 2006 16:33:40 GMT -5
Mr Howard complete the job you started in 1996 !!!
As you can see from this board we have paranoid, hate-filled people living in our societies. All the more reason to have strong controls on guns... so, Mr Howard complete the job you started in 1996 !!!
Gun law reform now in Australia is similar to domestic violence reform in the 1980s, when country after country realised their policies were antiquated and indefensible. South Africa, Britain, Nicaragua, Montenegro, Germany, Cambodia, Mauritius and Brazil have recently toughened their gun laws. In Belgium, Paraguay, Liberia, Guatemala, Burundi, Portugal, Senegal, Macedonia and Argentina (among others) the reforms are under way.
Particularly striking is the case of Brazil, which has one of the highest rates of gun violence, with nearly 40,000 gun deaths in 2003. That year the gun law was tightened, with spectacular results. Gun deaths dropped for the first time after 13 years of rising continuously; by the end of 2004 the rate had fallen by 8per cent, which translated into more than 3200 lives saved,
The gun control revolution has also reached the UN, where a process to reduce the proliferation and misuse of small arms kicked off in 2001. The UN process is developing global norms to regulate the world's estimated 650 million guns and has produced an international agreement on the marking and tracing of weapons. We expect further progress from the five-year review conference to be held this June in New York.
These UN conferences are attended by government officials, non-governmental organisations supporting tougher firearm regulation and the National Rifle Association of America.
One of the most powerful lobby groups on Capitol Hill in Washington, the NRA appears to be no less influential on the US delegation at the UN. Even very modest declarations on small arms are opposed by the US. For example, a resolution expressing concern about the effect of weapons proliferation on humanitarian activities and development was passed with 177 votes in favour and one (the US) against.
The NRA has characterised this small arms process as a mission "to confiscate civilian firearms worldwide and impose on Americans the lesser, inferior, global standard of freedom". The UN and my own organisation, the International Action Network on Small Arms, are known as "the enemies of freedom".
\According to NRA board member (and former congressman) Bob Barr: "That's really their ultimate agenda: to bring the United States down from the pinnacle of freedom to simply being another one of these socialist states." This last is a reference to Britain, Australia and Canada, countries dubbed by the NRA as "formerly free nations".
Such ranting by American gun loons may seem to be a long way removed from Australia, unless you remember our own Gympie-based version screaming on television in May 1996: "The only currency that you can purchase freedom back with is blood!"
Then and now, whether in Queensland, Tasmania, Texas or elsewhere, we have paranoid, hate-filled people living in our societies. All the more reason to have strong controls on guns
The time for talk is over
Lets have total restrictions on automatic and all hand guns
Back in 66 What we all failed to look at was that the very types of semi-automatic military style firearms that we chose to ban in the way of rifles and shot-guns were not affected by the 1996 National Firearms Agreement
If people can't have a semi-automatic rifle for target shooting, they should not be allowed to have another gun
I mean we really need the Commonwealth to explain why target shooters with hand-guns in clubs are better armed than our police. We really need an explanation as to that and they haven't provided one.
After the gun buyback scheme post the Port Arthur massacre, there was a consequence that no-one predicted: an increasing availability of hand guns, which have become the criminals' weapon of choice in shootings, murders and armed robberies. With this point in mind, unless the government takes a tougher stand on hand guns, the supposed ban on semiautomatic hand guns announced last year is headed for failure, and the Australian public will witness further tragedies at the hands of licensed and unlicenced gun owners ( NO difference between the two)
As you can see from this board we have paranoid, hate-filled people living in our societies. All the more reason to have strong controls on guns... so, Mr Howard complete the job you started in 1996 !!!
Gun law reform now in Australia is similar to domestic violence reform in the 1980s, when country after country realised their policies were antiquated and indefensible. South Africa, Britain, Nicaragua, Montenegro, Germany, Cambodia, Mauritius and Brazil have recently toughened their gun laws. In Belgium, Paraguay, Liberia, Guatemala, Burundi, Portugal, Senegal, Macedonia and Argentina (among others) the reforms are under way.
Particularly striking is the case of Brazil, which has one of the highest rates of gun violence, with nearly 40,000 gun deaths in 2003. That year the gun law was tightened, with spectacular results. Gun deaths dropped for the first time after 13 years of rising continuously; by the end of 2004 the rate had fallen by 8per cent, which translated into more than 3200 lives saved,
The gun control revolution has also reached the UN, where a process to reduce the proliferation and misuse of small arms kicked off in 2001. The UN process is developing global norms to regulate the world's estimated 650 million guns and has produced an international agreement on the marking and tracing of weapons. We expect further progress from the five-year review conference to be held this June in New York.
These UN conferences are attended by government officials, non-governmental organisations supporting tougher firearm regulation and the National Rifle Association of America.
One of the most powerful lobby groups on Capitol Hill in Washington, the NRA appears to be no less influential on the US delegation at the UN. Even very modest declarations on small arms are opposed by the US. For example, a resolution expressing concern about the effect of weapons proliferation on humanitarian activities and development was passed with 177 votes in favour and one (the US) against.
The NRA has characterised this small arms process as a mission "to confiscate civilian firearms worldwide and impose on Americans the lesser, inferior, global standard of freedom". The UN and my own organisation, the International Action Network on Small Arms, are known as "the enemies of freedom".
\According to NRA board member (and former congressman) Bob Barr: "That's really their ultimate agenda: to bring the United States down from the pinnacle of freedom to simply being another one of these socialist states." This last is a reference to Britain, Australia and Canada, countries dubbed by the NRA as "formerly free nations".
Such ranting by American gun loons may seem to be a long way removed from Australia, unless you remember our own Gympie-based version screaming on television in May 1996: "The only currency that you can purchase freedom back with is blood!"
Then and now, whether in Queensland, Tasmania, Texas or elsewhere, we have paranoid, hate-filled people living in our societies. All the more reason to have strong controls on guns
The time for talk is over
Lets have total restrictions on automatic and all hand guns
Back in 66 What we all failed to look at was that the very types of semi-automatic military style firearms that we chose to ban in the way of rifles and shot-guns were not affected by the 1996 National Firearms Agreement
If people can't have a semi-automatic rifle for target shooting, they should not be allowed to have another gun
I mean we really need the Commonwealth to explain why target shooters with hand-guns in clubs are better armed than our police. We really need an explanation as to that and they haven't provided one.
After the gun buyback scheme post the Port Arthur massacre, there was a consequence that no-one predicted: an increasing availability of hand guns, which have become the criminals' weapon of choice in shootings, murders and armed robberies. With this point in mind, unless the government takes a tougher stand on hand guns, the supposed ban on semiautomatic hand guns announced last year is headed for failure, and the Australian public will witness further tragedies at the hands of licensed and unlicenced gun owners ( NO difference between the two)
