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Ban handguns to ban crime - what a joke!

Oh puke! No, sod that, big puke. In fact, the biggest PUKE I've ever had!

How can politicians come out with such utter garbage and do it with such straight faces?

Of course I'm referring to this latest move to ban handguns in Australia in a bid, we are told by the pollies, to make us a safer society.

Fewer handguns means less violent crime, according to those who are turning Australia into a sookie society, and the real shame of it is the sheep of the electorate - and the media - take the line bait and all.

Has anyone bothered to think about the absurdity of the whole handgun debate?

I mean - do gun users who own their weapons legally and have them registered and locked away, commit anything but a tiny percentage of the violent crime in this nation?

Do these law-abiding citizens - who can be easily traced for their potentially dastardly crimes - wander around robbing people/petrol stations or breaking into other people's homes?

One would suggest not.

In fact, gunowners would be among the most law-obeying people in Australia. They have to be, otherwise the woolly-heads will have them in court faster than you can blink, while they'll turn a blind eye to any murderers, rapists or thugs who just happen to come from broken homes.

If politicians and bleeding hearts want to overreact to the occasional incident that's fine, but really they should be focusing on the scum who are the really violent members of society - the criminal classes.

It is illegal gun holders who are the problem, not the members of gun clubs, sports shooters and the like. It is the gangs, the drug dealers, the stand-over men and other low-lives of society who commit almost all of the shootings.

Deal with them first.

By the way, I do not own a gun - I'm too scared I may just use it.

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