[[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 02:57, 17 December 2014 (EST)
[[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 02:57, 17 December 2014 (EST)
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Excuse the following...but I am cross, and Sam is I know to be a reasonable and intelligent man - and a friend....
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:Obviously I can't win against someone who probably sits at his computer for hours on end with an assault rifle beside him with one eye out the window just hoping that some one who is black or jewish or liberal will put a foot onto his property so that he can shoot them. What larks!! (Pip old chap))
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:I live in a free state. It's called [[Tasmania]]. About 18 years ago some unhinged bastard called Martin Bryant killed 30-plus people at the Port Arthur historic site an hour or two down the road. One of the victims was a friend of the family. Another was my children's school bus driver. Since then nothing similar has happened. Just the odd minor event because the Federal government of the day brought in gun control. It worked. Go onto the Net and check out Australia's gun crime statistics since 1996 compared to yours. Especially schools and colleges.
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:I can have a queue jumping altercation without worrying about being shot. Can you?
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That Islamic prick that killed two in the Lindt cafe the other night in Sydney only killed two because all he could get was a shot gun. In America, if he lived in what you call a "free state", he could have got an assault rifle and sprayed the whole room in the twinkling of an eye.
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I won't go on because I see you are like those I occasionally met in the old days in Outback pubs who felt naked without their firearms and were usually relieved of their ammunition before the publican would serve them a beer.
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Cheers mate.
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[[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 04:06, 17 December 2014 (EST)