GUNMAN KILLS SIX AT ZOMBIE PARTY.
The Gungho Gun Toting Loonies are having a field day.
Seattle: A Gunman killed six young revellers at a 'Zombie Party' in a Seattle house yesterday and then shot himself in the head when confronted by police as he left the house, officials said. This is an extract from the Sydney Daily Telegraph (my favourite newspaper). This sort of happening would go un-noticed in the 'Good o'l US of A Tabloids, it would be far too common to raise public interest, if one failed to read about it; there would be a similar killing soon to follow within hours.
However for Ozstrayer readers there is a full page to feast on.
A local OZ shooter states that because 60% of murders in 2003-04 were bashings and stabbings, Knives are more dangerous than guns.(That is a load of codswallop).
Perhaps the more logical interpretation is because most murders are not premeditated, the perpetrators simply had used what they had available, and because they were hard to get, guns were used less frequently.
Here are some other statistics: In the USA, they record an average of 88 Gun Deaths a day. In 40% of cases, the weapon is the Persons own gun turned on themselves.
Fewer Guns equals fewer Gun-Deaths. Crimminals will always find ways to obtain weapons, but if we limit the supply we can limit the damage.
Sporting Shooters and people working on the land should have limited access to guns, but the harder we make it for the man on the street to get a gun, the fewer Gun Deaths we will have to endure.
Seattle: A Gunman killed six young revellers at a 'Zombie Party' in a Seattle house yesterday and then shot himself in the head when confronted by police as he left the house, officials said. This is an extract from the Sydney Daily Telegraph (my favourite newspaper). This sort of happening would go un-noticed in the 'Good o'l US of A Tabloids, it would be far too common to raise public interest, if one failed to read about it; there would be a similar killing soon to follow within hours.
However for Ozstrayer readers there is a full page to feast on.
A local OZ shooter states that because 60% of murders in 2003-04 were bashings and stabbings, Knives are more dangerous than guns.(That is a load of codswallop).
Perhaps the more logical interpretation is because most murders are not premeditated, the perpetrators simply had used what they had available, and because they were hard to get, guns were used less frequently.
Here are some other statistics: In the USA, they record an average of 88 Gun Deaths a day. In 40% of cases, the weapon is the Persons own gun turned on themselves.
Fewer Guns equals fewer Gun-Deaths. Crimminals will always find ways to obtain weapons, but if we limit the supply we can limit the damage.
Sporting Shooters and people working on the land should have limited access to guns, but the harder we make it for the man on the street to get a gun, the fewer Gun Deaths we will have to endure.
Comments
Sam your reply has merit, nice not to receive a nasty reply.
Previous bouts with U/S cits left me with the opinion that most applaud the home ownership of firearms in general, quoting an ancient # amendment from the 1700's.
Sam your choice of weapons is to be deplored, sorry about this, however Staffordshire terriers indeed, by this you mean Stafforshire PIT BULL Terriers.
Sam you sly dog, those dogs can create more carnage to an adversary than Tom Micks twin six guns. This particular breed of dog cannot be imported into Australia, neither may people breed them here, all present owners of these animals have been issued with strict guidelines how to control their charges, examples are; leashed at all times in public, wear a muzzle and must be either spayed or de-nutted.
This situation was in retaliation to the past behaviour of these animals, attacking children and other animals over the more recent years.
Excerpt from a book by yours truly. Later we attended a domestic dispute inside a trailer park that housed married U/S Navy personnel, when we arrived a very angry person with a shotgun fired at us , shattering the wind shield of our truck, on returning to my ship I was asked " How did things go?" I replied, "It was a quiet evening according to the yanks".(This happened about two hours after I stepped ashore in the U?S for the first time.
Thank you for your comment Sam.
"The Noblest Dog is the Hotdog,
It feeds the hand that bites it".
Sams post, it seems familiar! also checked (DENOUMENT) lost an E, Denouement to disentangle, pretty word Sam.
bridget ; hang on to you U/S P P.
I am a dual cit Brit & Oz P Pts.
Gordon - Wasn't me. ;)
I'm in California.
NEW YORK: A woman whose three pit bull terriers mauled an 82 year old neighbour to death, has been awarded 3 years in the slammer.
Deanna Large 37, was held responsible for the death of Dorothy Sullivan who had been walking her dog, a shih tzu, which also was killed.