Gun Control In Australia...FAIL!

..what about the good people? The people that are careful and courteous? Who is there to protect them when they become a target? They have no defense against the armed criminal, a bad cop, or some ***ed off neighbor that goes over the edge. Do aussie's just write them off as too bad, poor timing, wrong place wrong time....
I have to admit, that a lack of guns is just as mind-boggling to me as our way is to you. There are two sides and one truth. I suppose that's the one we argue about.

 

WTF you would look for a fight in a convent wouldn't you. My comment was in reply to your saying "Your boys started it", we didn't, ya'll did. Grow up, with your attitude, you would be the last person I would allow to carry a weapon.

 

The average Australian live his entire life without seeing any of the above. My father is 96 and has told me he never has either. I worked in Kings Cross, a very famous area in Sydney which would be known to just about any US Serviceman from the Vietnam error, and I have never seen it.

Maybe some other Aussie here can tell us of an experience but I can't, and I currently live smack bang in the hottest crime area in Australia.

 

Aussie, have you ever been in a position, that faced with a

?
If you have/had of, would having a personal handgun been of help? Would you, a well versed hand gun user have used one? How many, or what percentage, roughly, of the people you know, would you trust to use one?

 

Aussie, have you ever been in a position, that faced with a

?
If you have/had of, would having a personal handgun been of help? Would you, a well versed hand gun user have used one? How many, or what percentage, roughly, of the people you know, would you trust to use one?

 

We have those too, folks who have never experienced such things. They live their lives pretty much like some aussies do... party on the weekends, work hard and pay their bills and never have that much social conflict that makes them fear for their lives. I am sure you have a few who live in fear and never go outside, much like we do.
Then you, like us, have the ones living hand to mouth in a ghetto-type environment where all they ever know is pain and hardship.
I have been in that situation and my firearm was a deterent...... and I have been to war.
One thing I learned in 'Nam was I didn't like it very much. So much death in war. The other thing I learned was that I could, if forced, respond with extreme predjudice. I have never used it stateside, but I have come so close in self-defense and I was never so glad it turned out like it did.......because I knew I could, and didn't.
Our two societies and cultures are different. We don't agree on much, but that at least you can agree on that. It is accepted that what works over here won't work there, and what works there doesn't work here.
While there are vaying opinions, at the end of the day, we live in separate worlds. Worlds that we can each live in, and that's what's most important when we lay our heads down.

 

DV, I have had a few "near death" experiences. It takes a fair bit of work to get to the point where one can safely "live with" a hand gun, and some people just aren`t cut out for the job, clumsy, lapses of "SAFE HABITS", etc.. Conversly, there are a very few others I know, whom I`d be completely comfortable with.

 

Baaaaahahahahahaha

Yank recons Derek will treat him as an equal 'cause he's got a boom stick.

LOL

 

I own 2 unregistered weapons.

My beautiful .22 Bruno, that i've had for ever, that i pop a few bunnies with.

And a grouse little .22 hand gun, that i am becoming increasing glad to have in the house.

Becomes harder every year to recognise the town i was born in.

 

whaaaaaaaaaa? I really don't understand this one.....clarify? I got this part ".....will treat him as an equal 'cause he's got a boom stick."
but ya lost me on this "....Yank recons Derek"
But the other statement, my statement, is not only true, but historically accurate.