Post by cardigan on May 23, 2006 19:22:01 GMT -5
National Coalition for Gun Control spokesman Roland Browne said permits allowing children as young as 10 to use guns was only one of many clear breaches by all jurisdictions. He urged John Howard to commission a national review of compliance with the 1996 agreement, which covered semi-automatic rifles, and of the "inadequate" 2003 agreement on handguns. "The commonwealth has gone to sleep on the firearms issue and they need to be stirring the states to greater compliance," Mr Browne said. "They need to be playing a very active role in plugging the handgun loophole so we don't have another Port Arthur massacre. "But there will be a significant mass shooting with a handgun because there are large numbers in the community and they are being stolen with alarming frequency."
Of course the Truth is its much worse in the USA
And what is the Truth.... that you hear so little of on this board.
Well for instance The NRA and the gun industry are terrified of the truth about guns and crime,“Crime gun trace data implicates reckless gun dealers who supply the illegal market and the manufacturers who profit from their sales. The gun lobby has responded by legislating ignorance. It knows that the truth may lead to action for sensible new laws to choke off the supply of illegal guns.” More and more us gunowners are not renewing teir membrrship
of the NRA and no wonder.
it is no stranger to controvrersy here in Australia either..
In the early 1990s, as Australia began tightening its gun control laws, the head of the Sporting Shooters’ Association of Australia (SSAA) twice visited the NRA’s headquarters outside Washington, D.C., to absorb lobbying and public relations know-how. (The NRA picked up $20,000 worth of his travel expenses.) In return, in 1992, the Australians welcomed then NRA President Robert Corbin, who embarked on a three-week tour of Australia and New Zealand. Corbin met privately with pro-gun interests and gave media interviews. Part of his objective was to soften the violent image of the American gun lobby among the Australian public. Still, he was anything but delicate when encouraging Australian gun advocates to adopt hardball political tactics, if they cared about keeping their weapons. “They call us the Evil Empire and they hate us,” Corbin said of the NRA’s opponents. “But we win.”
As was the case in Brazil, the Australian visit helped catalyze the country’s gun rights movement, but to a more obvious extent. The Australian group launched its own legislative action institute in 1993, inspired by the NRA’s lobbying arm. Australian gun owners even organized the Australian Shooters Party, and in 1995 won a seat in the New South Wales state parliament—reportedly the only legislator in the world elected solely on a pro-gun platform.
Yet the NRA’s Australian excursion did little to endear itself to the Australian public at large. Their link to the NRA has marked the Sporting Shooters’ Association for easy criticism, especially in the wake of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, where a man shot and killed 35 people at a tourist area in Tasmania. “The general public only sees what’s in the media,” says Jeanine Baker, president of the SSAA’s South Australia chapter, “and usually that’s the extreme side of the NRA.” Baker doesn’t believe the NRA is extreme, but “outspoken”—because it has to be, she says.
More about the SSAA
www.guncontrol.org.au/index.php?article=39
And the truth ?
"A Nogun Australia will reduce the amount of legally or illegally held firearms in circulation".
I would also like to apologise to the ex Aussieseek-Matilda Moderator
called Lennie for the rough treatment I dealt out as a reaction to my
worries about alcaholics and guns. I admit when you started defending
that dreadful situation I gave you a right royal serve.I also felt " How could a person who is so gun friendly be a Unbiased Moderator. laughing at you
may have been unpleasent but I also think (as keith has told me) me being now not allowed to discuss the dangers of grog and guns on this board because it might upset you to be incredible censorship. Would you ring up any other media and try that on or get away with it.?
The expediat Gun posters leapt to your defence (wasnt one of them also an alcaholic?)
because they do not want me to expose this horror. I wasnt unhappy that one left though.
You mean to say information about this serious subject is denied to all our readers here because it upsets you? One person can switch on or switch off discussion on any topic? I will apologise but surely you have put the small amount of credibility Keith has left into tatters.. I feel sorry for him.All the Gun Owners hate him and you obviously more.
Thats sad. Its not good to hate.
I see Lennie also from your signature you hate me.
Why do you hate ?
You are made in the image of God.
Every person is something very special - and you are, too!
Of You must defend yourself as I do as well. The Gun Posters made me like that long before you came. But in defending yourself what is the cost to others?
Or are they not to be considered?
Of course the Truth is its much worse in the USA
And what is the Truth.... that you hear so little of on this board.
Well for instance The NRA and the gun industry are terrified of the truth about guns and crime,“Crime gun trace data implicates reckless gun dealers who supply the illegal market and the manufacturers who profit from their sales. The gun lobby has responded by legislating ignorance. It knows that the truth may lead to action for sensible new laws to choke off the supply of illegal guns.” More and more us gunowners are not renewing teir membrrship
of the NRA and no wonder.
it is no stranger to controvrersy here in Australia either..
In the early 1990s, as Australia began tightening its gun control laws, the head of the Sporting Shooters’ Association of Australia (SSAA) twice visited the NRA’s headquarters outside Washington, D.C., to absorb lobbying and public relations know-how. (The NRA picked up $20,000 worth of his travel expenses.) In return, in 1992, the Australians welcomed then NRA President Robert Corbin, who embarked on a three-week tour of Australia and New Zealand. Corbin met privately with pro-gun interests and gave media interviews. Part of his objective was to soften the violent image of the American gun lobby among the Australian public. Still, he was anything but delicate when encouraging Australian gun advocates to adopt hardball political tactics, if they cared about keeping their weapons. “They call us the Evil Empire and they hate us,” Corbin said of the NRA’s opponents. “But we win.”
As was the case in Brazil, the Australian visit helped catalyze the country’s gun rights movement, but to a more obvious extent. The Australian group launched its own legislative action institute in 1993, inspired by the NRA’s lobbying arm. Australian gun owners even organized the Australian Shooters Party, and in 1995 won a seat in the New South Wales state parliament—reportedly the only legislator in the world elected solely on a pro-gun platform.
Yet the NRA’s Australian excursion did little to endear itself to the Australian public at large. Their link to the NRA has marked the Sporting Shooters’ Association for easy criticism, especially in the wake of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, where a man shot and killed 35 people at a tourist area in Tasmania. “The general public only sees what’s in the media,” says Jeanine Baker, president of the SSAA’s South Australia chapter, “and usually that’s the extreme side of the NRA.” Baker doesn’t believe the NRA is extreme, but “outspoken”—because it has to be, she says.
More about the SSAA
www.guncontrol.org.au/index.php?article=39
And the truth ?
"A Nogun Australia will reduce the amount of legally or illegally held firearms in circulation".
I would also like to apologise to the ex Aussieseek-Matilda Moderator
called Lennie for the rough treatment I dealt out as a reaction to my
worries about alcaholics and guns. I admit when you started defending
that dreadful situation I gave you a right royal serve.I also felt " How could a person who is so gun friendly be a Unbiased Moderator. laughing at you
may have been unpleasent but I also think (as keith has told me) me being now not allowed to discuss the dangers of grog and guns on this board because it might upset you to be incredible censorship. Would you ring up any other media and try that on or get away with it.?
The expediat Gun posters leapt to your defence (wasnt one of them also an alcaholic?)
because they do not want me to expose this horror. I wasnt unhappy that one left though.
You mean to say information about this serious subject is denied to all our readers here because it upsets you? One person can switch on or switch off discussion on any topic? I will apologise but surely you have put the small amount of credibility Keith has left into tatters.. I feel sorry for him.All the Gun Owners hate him and you obviously more.
Thats sad. Its not good to hate.
I see Lennie also from your signature you hate me.
Why do you hate ?
You are made in the image of God.
Every person is something very special - and you are, too!
Of You must defend yourself as I do as well. The Gun Posters made me like that long before you came. But in defending yourself what is the cost to others?
Or are they not to be considered?
