Archive for February, 2001

One Nation or Dumb Nation?

Pauline Hanson has revealed that she is unsure whether Martin Bryant was the shooter who killed 35 people at Port Arthur in 1996. The argument initiated soon after the massacre by ex-British private security agent Joe Vialls of Perth is mainly based on the idea that the killing rampage at Port Arthur was the work of a skilled marksman and could not have been done by a novice such as Bryant. This incredible idea is a convenient way of explaining why the stricter gun laws which became operative...