look at you guys gettin' all riled over something an Australian posts.

post it anyway!

i thought someone said "most guns used in drug related crimes are unregistered"

and i said "duh"

and the person said the complete opposite.

i am just drunk

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Wow. I leave for 24 hours and there are 2 pages.

Mick, even if guns are all but eliminated they will trickle into society. Do you think every crime that is committed in Australia is done so with legal arms?

You state that you wouldn't know where to get a handgun. Well, I don't know where to get crack either, but I'm pretty sure I know someone, or can walk out my door and find some within 15 mins. Same goes with a gun. That's a weak argument.

You act like they give out guns in gumball machines here. Very strange.

I don't anyone thinks you can eliminate gun crime by putting restrictions or even banning legal weapons.

It is very difficult to own a legal weapon here and folks still get shot but I have no doubts in my mind that far fewer people are killed because of the restrictions on gun ownership.

Also, almost everyone that does get shot are criminals. Illegal guns are very rarely used against innocents.

Incidentally, Britain had similar gun laws to the United States until about 100 years ago so there is a precedent of nations giving up their right to bare arms.

On the other hand we have much higher crime in general: burglaries, robbery, assaults, property damage etc, etc.

Personally thought, I rather live in a country where someone intent on doing damage to you has to get within arms length, or occasionally, samurai sword length.

Around here, every criminal is quite aware that they will probably be met by a double barrel and someone who knows how to use it.

Every criminal instinctively grasps the sound of a racking shotgun, and I like it that way.