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Its disheartening and very predictable. Lunatic shoots people; commie politicians, would-be tyrants move to institute Draconian laws, designed, not to prevent future events, but to punish an entire nation for the crimes of the few. Bald, naked, TYRANNY. The result - look to England for an on-going account of the results of victim disarmament. Anarchy, chaos, martial law, tyranny.

Perhaps the Aussies have to experience the same crime increase before coming to their senses and reversing this "disarm everyone" nonsense.

I can't imagine being in the back country with no law enforcement anywhere around and facing some scum who "know" they can take all your stuff (and kill you, for that matter) while you can do nothing to defend yourself.

I've seen tourists totally disregard any possibility of harm coming to them - some with sad results. Remember the Egyptian extremists' slaughter of tourists? Now, a handgun might not have saved you in that situation, but monsters like those can discover fear (or die) when the "unarmed" suddenly begin firing back. I'd sure rather go down firing than crawling. Who knows, I might nail some creep and get HIS rifle. Now the situation is different!