Posted on 11/06/2002 8:35:26 AM PST by michaelje
Handgun access ludicrous: PM
It was ludicrous that ordinary people in Australia should have access to handguns, Prime Minister John Howard said.
Mr Howard said he supported the concept of police, security industry workers and sporting shooters having such weapons.
"But other than that you don't need a handgun, and I think most people would agree with that," he told Adelaide radio station 5DN.
"It's just ludicrous that people should have access, and a lot of them do. The rules are too lax."
Mr Howard said he did not want to see Australia go down the American path where guns were "worshipped".
"That has brought untold misery and harm and also delivered to America a very high murder rate for a stable, open western society," he said.
Mr Howard also pointed to independent research which indicated that the number of gun-related murders in Australia had fallen in the six years since the prohibition on long arms in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre.
"They are measured claims I make," he said.
"I'm not pretending that we can abolish evil and unhappiness by getting rid of guns.
"But I do think we can make a contribution towards a safer Australia and I do think we have a capacity to avoid going down the American path."
Last month's double fatality shooting at Monash University in Melbourne has prompted the federal government to move to restrict access to high-powered pistols, proposing a buyback scheme and amnesty for owners of illegal weapons.
No, but you are pretending that the evil and unhappy won't shoot the good and happy, that you have made defenseless. Your kind of pretense, that criminals will obey your law, is a measure of your passionate ignorance and indicative of your contempt for your fellow man.
Caste system alert: the peasants should be disarmed, says the king.
It was ludicrous that ordinary people in Australia Germany should have access to handguns, Prime Minister John Howard Chancellor Adolf Hitler said.
He would have them go down the toltalitarian path where lord Howard is worshiped Or down the path of Zimbabwe or down the path of Communist China
Where satan or the state are worshiped...
Hey Dorkwad...Americans worship "The" God. Come on you remember doncha? (before you sold your soul)..The one True God..of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and His Son Jesus Christ......not guns..we dont worship guns...
Guns are tools to defend ones life and the lives of one's family and neighbors...come in real handy against muslim rapists and murderers when they terrorize ones country..and against tyrants..like the king of England..
The stuff free men own...
Criminals banished to a British penal colony dont esteem to such things I guess
..Choosing Instead To Be Ruled by the KAPOs of the Empire..IM (bloody) Opinon
Funny ...muslims from Australia bombed a hotel full of Australians in Bali and their "Fearless Leader" bans handguns from honest tax paying citizens many who are also veterans who would defend their homes...
What a nasty little "full of himself" Ty Runt Mr. Howard is...
Prime Minister Howard says-'Only police and security guards need handguns. Ordinary People have NO need for them AT ALL.
Does this mean if I moved to Australia I'd have to get rid of my shrine to John Moses Browning?
He's right. Only abolishing freedom sucking parasites will accomplish these goals.
Mr Howard, please keep your diseased thinking on your side of the ocean. By the way, you bare your a$$ to the world when you think you know what American's worship. Have a nice day disarming your "subjects".
Note to ordinary people in Australia:
Your Prime Minister (who is surrounded by armed security) would rather see you murdered than to allow you the means to defend your own life. Be afraid, be very afraid.
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