Archive for August, 2003

WHO ARE THE RESPONSIBLE SHOOTERS?

Gun lobby representatives often speak about 'Law Abiding Shooters' as though 99.9% of gun owners could be placed in that category. Police checks in several of Melbourne's Eastern suburbs have recently shown that about half the number of gun owners do not store their guns legally. The police are to be praised for their efforts, but what can one say about shooters. Surely the answer is that half of them are careless and not law abiding. This raises the question of how to make gun owners more law a...