Posts by AisForApple 4 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Feb 2013
Nice story, but we recently overtook our pre-port arthur gun numbers, and dispite the Sydney newspapers crying about gun crime, the numbers have never been lower in the last 50 years. I am happy that you feel safe, now that you know there are more guns in Australia than before Port Arthur do you magically feel less safe?
Its not the left over firearms that are the major problem, its the new ones leaking in from every port/post office and diety knows where else.
Hmmm. As an experienced firearm user and owner, I can tell you that there are plenty of back yarders making weapons far more sensible, accurate and reliable at massively lower cost right now. This is a total storm in a tea cup, I'd not even be confident using this device in my hand let alone using it in a crime or for self protection.
Firearms are a great equaliser for people defending themselves and their families, criminals already have weapons, why should your wife/daughter/son or grandparents not use a 100 year old tool to allow them to fend off or defend their property, livelyhood and life against scumbags? I'm not an American, I do believe not every person on earth should be allowed to carry or own a firearm -- but in my mind, I want my loved ones to have the ability to stand on even footing with the criminal that might threaten them.
On a less serious note, if you've never tried using a firearm, go to your local club/range and have a go, some serious fun to be had, and massive amounts of nerdy fun to be had with reloading and target shooting in particular when you get super serious.
As a gun owner in one of the countries that prides itself on strong gun laws. I'd say that the US model is not the problem, the UK model is no better.
Crime is the issue, gun crime is not.
Some people will sell out all freedom for the hope and illusion of safety, others accept there is a price for all things, sometimes the price is horribly high, no one wants to pay it. But we do, because the lie of safety is not worth the price.
I'm not going to say there isn't room for both arguments, or insist my view is right. I would say, do some honest research, real, open, fair and apples to apples reseach. I was one of the anti gun people, until I spent some time getting to know the arguments. I believe that an honest apraisal of things like CCP's will highlight that the gun laws proposed are unlikely to help, and really achieve little.
Look at Canadian long gun registry that is being scrapped, Australia's registry that can't even tell how many guns are in the country, let alone the illegal ones. Criminals in both countries have never had a crime solved against them with a registry and honest owners are made criminals by procedural misunderstandings and tiny obscure legalities.
Gun control has in my view failed, 14th cent. technology can't be unlearned. And banning drinking didn't work. So why would you continue to try failed controls. Stopping crime is far harder than banning a particular thing -- always has been.
I work at one of the 4 coal fired plants (as a contractor) that was talked about for the contract for closure payment, they currently produce power at $40/MWh
Not only is wind not a viable solution for base load power, but the figures in this are plain rubbish, the 'cheaper' power is 2x what the 'expensive' power is _CURRENTLY_ being produced for. Not pie in the sky 'might be' numbers.
This is typical of debate on this topic.
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