Well this has spurred me to open the gun safe and air it out.
In my youth I began collecting old military rifles. I could not afford Weatherby, Drillings of fine Italian shotguns.

Now that you mention the lack luster ambition of others I can plainly see my weapons have not moved for years ( aside for the occasional cleaning and inspection.) And there is no doubt they have not been sneaking out for nefarious rondevous.


The old Mausers and Arisakas rest comfortably with the Marlin Levers and a few Remingtons and Rugers. A pair of antique side by each stage coach scatter guns sit in the corner, ignored by the legitimate long guns

Actually it is a serene scene all calm an quiet. ready to be called in to service should the need arise, but content to wait quietly.

Save for an erent Craftsman Lawnmower that loves to decapitate field mice. not much of anything in my home does any harm to living things.

Knives resigned to KP Duty, cutting nothing but chicken and veggies.
A wonderful collection of mechanics tools from my long past drag race days, so many lethal possibilities and yet none have do any more damage than a skinned knuckle.

Perhaps it is the human element that should be the focus of concern when a life is taken.

BUT who will inform the ignorant that inanimate objects are benign save for the will of those that would use them for destruction.

I wonder, would the same people cry out for HAMMER CONTROL when they are used to kill? Masonary? Who knows how many lives are destroyed by bricks.

A Drunk driver kills, not the Subaru

You might want to rethink that.
Cain clobbered Abel, no gun.
Tribes in Africa and Asia fought over territory, no guns.
The Myan built an empire covering huge areas of Central America, no guns. But they did practice human sacrifice, brain surgery and goldsmithing. No guns.
The Egyptians conquered most of North Africa, no guns. But they did build the pyramids. Among other things.
Gheghis Kahn came close to conquering most of Western Europe... with bows and arrows. No guns.
The American Natives (mistakenly called Indians) managed to war with each other for centuries before Europeans introduced them to guns.
Guns or knives or bows/arrows or other objects do not cause crime.
PEOPLE CAUSE CRIME.
The gun, knife whatever only makes it easier for someone who wants to commit a crime to do so.

However, I suspect history wasn't your best subject in school. I also suspect you never studied logic.
Not trying to be mean, just realistic.
Take care and good luck if you ever meet a knife wielding mugger.

Mary

pbearperry wrote:
Is it really?You guys lost your freedoms to own most guns and now you want us to.No thanks.In 1996 newly elected Prime Minister John Howard of Australia pushed for stricter gun control. That year the Australian Parliament passed the National Firearms Agreement which banned the private ownership of all semiautomatic rifles and semiautomatic and pump action shotguns. The new law also established more restrictions in the licensing of other firearms.

According to the National Firearms Agreement private citizens were forced to turn over the banned weapons in a government buyback system. Beginning on October 1, 1966 through September 30, 1997, the Australian government spent $500 million in purchasing and destroying more than 631,000 banned guns. Howard and other politicians promised the citizens of Australia that they would be safer now that these horrible weapons had been taken off the streets.

However, that was not the case! Since Australia banned semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and pump action shotguns the gun crime rates have skyrocketed throughout the country.
Many former gun owners blame the government and their gun control laws for the increases in crimes. They feel helpless in their own homes, unable to protect themselves. In fact, home invasions were so rare prior to the gun ban that the nation did not even have a legal definition for what a home invasion was.

http://www.worldpublicunion.org/2013-04-05-NEWS-australian-gun-ban-resulted-in-higher-crime-rates.html

Like, I just took this like 40 minute train ride like home like. And there was like these two like teenage girls like on the train like across the aisle. And they like talked incessantly like about like relationships and the like. They were with like this guy who like slept through it all, too. And like they couldn't get through like one sentence without like at least two "like" in it. You know. And like it was like non-stop like.

What if high school English teachers were to have the students record a casual conversation with one of their friends and then transcribe it. Like write down every word they said like and then read it like in class.

Way back when I was in high school speech class, the teacher broke us of the um vocalized um pause um.

You know, for like putting up with this like, um, here um is a little reward. Check out "If you had only one job to do and you ...... FAILED!"
http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2013/03/one-job-to-do-fails/

Like. You know. Sorry, had to get in one more.

You'll wonder what all the fuss is about... unless you are meeting a drug lord, or trafficking in some illicit contraband, and thus mixing with the worst sort and visiting the worst part of the city. I'll bet if I wanted to, i could get in trouble in any Australian city similarly. When you come, look around, see if you feel at all threatened... And honestly report on it.

The majority of the problem is how it is reported- making some events bigger then they are. Reporters job is not news, it is selling advertising. Like shark attacks. I know people who refuse to swim in the ocean.The fact that they have a much greater chance of being stung to death by bees or struck by lightning twice does not enter in the equation.

The fact is, you have a greater chance of being attacked by a shark then encountering any dangerous situation on your visit.