Shootings and gangs: black community leaders speak up

[Karlos]

@shillard

No, they made them more difficult to own without a license and less convenient to purchase. They also made it illegal to go walking the streets with them. At no point did they come and physically remove them people, except during arrests of people found brandishing them perhaps.

Making something illegal will never stop someone determined to break that law from doing it. It just deters the waverers.

To turn your pathetically moronic point around:

So, does anybody take hard drugs in Oz? Wow, I thought it was illegal. How could anyone ever OD in hard-drug free Oz?

[Karlos]

The problem with your sarcasm is that it is seemingly impossible to differentiate from your normal posting style, if what I have read of your comments here is anything to go by.

[Karlos]

X-ray wrote:
Hey man, T-Bone is back  :banana:  :banana:
Good to see you again  :pint:

Seconded!

Where the heck have you been, Troy?

[Karlos]

Do you....

a) Shoot them.

b) Call 999 and pray the cops come faster than Pizza Hut.

c) Get raped and die.


Hint: My wife answers "a".

Yeah, like you have a wife :-P If you do, she must be one very patient woman!

Anyway, you said earlier that your guns are totally locked down and secure and so on.

How the hell are you supposed to crack them open, load them and fire them at your assailants in any situation where they break in without disturbing you immediately?

Unless your guns are easy for you to get hold of and load in an extremely short space of time I fail to see how option "a" could be enacted except in the case the guys are stood there making a massive disturbance for however long before getting in. Let's face it, that's not exactly what happens in the majority of cases.

Of course, if your guns are easy to get hold of quickly, they are that much easier to steal too.

You realistically can't have it both ways. You can have them properly secured or you can have them ready to use in a genuine emergency.

[Karlos]

@Chris

This has to be the dumbest, most petulant pro-gun argument I've heard in a long time.

Indeed. However it seems the standard posting MO for our antipodean troll here. Hmmm, I can't think who that reminds me of...

I apologise if I've left anyone out - I'm sure I'll make up for it later.

As well you should. All those people that for whatever reason think you are an OK guy are hurting at your forgetfulness.

[Karlos]

in the country where there are no (or few) grocery stores you must hunt for your food or fish for your food. for hunting you must shoot or bludgeon the animal to death. also i would much rather shoot a rattlesnake to death than to walk up to it with a knife or axe and try to kill one that way.

Where do you get your ammunition from? Seems odd that a gun store would take precedence over basic amenities like food etc.

[Karlos]

i see you have never packed your own bullets then.

No, but then I don't have a gun either :-)