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Posted on 04/20/2005 11:48:15 AM PDT by freepatriot32
A GUN-control group has called for a total ban on semi-automatic handguns to prevent them falling into criminal hands with deadly consequences.
Speaking at the launch of a new national anti-handgun advertising campaign, National Coalition for Gun Control chair Sam Lee said the future looked bleak in relation to guns.
"What we are going to see in the future is more high-powered handguns on the streets because gun manufacturers are developing what are called quick-draws, which means they can be quickly grabbed and aimed at someone," Ms Lee said.
The campaign launch comes just days after the fatal drive-by shootings of two men at The Rocks in Sydney. "It is our belief that a handgun was used in this shooting and these lives could have been saved," Ms Lee said.
She is the author of a new research paper into handgun crime which found an estimated 291,273 handguns are in circulation in Australia.
The paper, called Tackling Handgun Crime in Australia, also found the majority of handguns move into the black market via theft from licensed gun owners.
The new print advertisement launched today depicts a handgun with the trigger facing inwards, with the slogan: "The majority of guns stolen are taken from homes, increasing the change of the gun being turned against its owner".
Ms Lee said some 4,000 firearms are stolen every year in Australia adding: "What seems to happen is these guns move into criminal hands.
"What we're asking the government – both federal and state – is to ban all semi-automatic handguns."
Also speaking at the launch was 28-year-old Gareth Fulton, shot in the leg in a drive-by shooting outside a pub in the north Sydney suburb of Cremorne in January.
Mr Fulton said he and a friend were innocent bystanders who fell victim to a thoughtless crime.
"Neither my friend nor myself are criminals or associate with anyone of the criminal persuasion – I've noticed that seems to be the first label pegged to anyone involved in any aspect of a drive-by shooting," he said.
"(The people involved in drive-by shootings) play video games and now they have got real guns and have no concept of the power that they wield.
"We need to make handguns illegal – there is no reason for owning a handgun besides shooting a person, and who who claims to have a human soul would want to do that?"
Oh i dont know maybe a women that doesnt wanto be gangraped and beaten to death,a man that doesnt wanto be stabbed or shot to death in his own home by a armed home invader, a delivery man that doesnt wanto be robbed and have his weekly pay stolen etc etc etc.Apparently the world supply of stupid pills made its way to australia and they ingested every one of them.
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I'd say they move into criminal hands th moment they are stolen. What an idiot.
yeah you noticed that too huh i was goingot put that in my comments to but my brain hurt so badly after i read it i didnt wanto read it again and comment on it
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I feel dumber just having had to read that. Ouch...
Criminals will always be able to get their hands on illegal contraband.
Is their ozone layer completely gone down there?
"We need to make handguns illegal – there is no reason for owning a handgun besides shooting a person, and who who claims to have a human soul would want to do that?"
Whoever you are, I would like to graciously offer you free room and board in Washington DC (Northwest).
OMG!!!!!
Not QUICK DRAWS!!!!
Soon they'll have
QUICK STEERS ON CARS!!!!
Me too. Ow. That has to be the lamest attempt at making sense I've ever heard. My brain stopped for a moment.
The IDEA! Being able to use a handgun to save your life from someone trying to kill you! What an outrage!!
Can we arrange for this woman to be put in a cell with several convicted rapists armed with knives, while she is given a whistle and cell phone? I'D pay to see that on Pay-per-view...
"Oh i dont know maybe a women that doesnt wanto be gangraped and beaten to death,..."
Perhaps you have stumbled onto something. Maybe liberal women have subconscious desire to be attacked since they are generally against any means of self defense.
Naah, they've got their looks to protect them. If that isn't enough, their attitudes certainly should be.
"Perhaps you have stumbled onto something. Maybe liberal women have subconscious desire to be attacked since they are generally against any means of self defense."
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You wouldn't say that if you had a loved one who got raped. I despise the left and despise stupid gun control but no one, no matter how stupid, wants to get raped. Rapists are scum who don't care about looks, my grandmother (may she rest in peace) was raped.
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