BG> What, you agree that it's mad, or you agree with the ban on
 BG> them?

 BL> I agree with banning pump-action shotguns.

 BG> Why? They're not self-loading weapons, and take just as long to
 BG> chamber a fresh round as a bolt-action rifle does. Banning
 BG> those is fucking mad. 

  Let me ask you why the USA went from 5-round magazines to 3?

 BG> In the US, it was a combination safety thing, and also designed
 BG> to give game animals a bit of a chance. I felt sure that we
 BG> followed suit, but could be wrong, as I only read about these
 BG> things in papers and magazines. 

  ROFL!!! Give the game a chance? What about us people?

 BL> I am sorry you feel so insecure.

 BG> So would you, if your neighbour had been murdered by someone
 BG> who's still at large, and if you had complete fuckwits driving
 BG> around firing high-powered rifles half the night. Logan is the
 BG> juvenile crime capital of Australia. 

  Actually, I wouldn't find Logan that insecure. I grew up in Newtown.
We had a murder, several rapes, a suicide (very messy, he cut his
throat) burglaries galore and wife-bashings every day of the week, not
to mention drunk and disorderly as a way of life. When I moved out, I
found it strangely silent at night without the screams.

 BG> As far as I'm concerned, it is my basic human right to be able
 BG> to protect myself and my family from predators, and if I need a
 BG> gun for that, so be it. 

 BL> Predators are a real worry... I suppose you mean that alien who
 BL> nearly got Arnold Swartzenegger. It was lucky he had an SLR.

 BG> Very droll.

  I liked it too. I rewrote it several times to get it just right.

 BG> And if I remember rightly, it was actually a nuclear explosion
 BG> which finally despatched the Predator in the movie of the same
 BG> name anyway. 

  Serves him right for going nuclear. He should have stuck to his SLR,
or his self-loading claw, anyway.

Regards,
Bob
 
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