> If gun control were REALLY about crime, you'd be right.
> Unfortunately, that's only the excuse. The actual reason is that
> gun owners are a vocal minority that's standing in the way
> of the statists. Gun shows contribute nada to street crime,
> but their great political meaning places and 99 percent of
> the people there are anti-statist, anti-government utopian.
> They can be neutralized by criminalizing them and their guns.

And now from a different perspective:
Gun control has probably been introduced in Australia so the citizens can't
violently oppose the "nucleur waste dump" and other bitter issues we will
face soon.
(only joking)
Lance