Re: OZ gun-grab fails to "save" society...


Cardigan wrote:
Phil Smythe wrote:
Cardigan wrote:
You're wrong, the 1996 gun buy-back was NOT directed at addressing the
issue of mass-murders with guns, it was all about the fact that the
Prime Minister "hates guns" and hates the thought of the public being
in possession of arms


"..it was all about draining the suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney of
firearms."
Tim Fischer - Deputy Prime Minister letter to SSAA Member 9/9/97 on the
gun buyback

Well, that is a very impressive piece of evidence, NOT!

So the supposed tail end of a sentence which could have saying
anything, supposedly sent to an unnamed SSSA member is supposed to be
proof that the 1996 gun laws weren't put into place specifically in
response to firearm mass murders? Pull the other one!


"Now I don't pretend for a moment ladies and gentlemen that the
decision that we have taken is going to guarantee that in the future
there won't be other mass murders. I don't pretend that for a
moment."
PM John Howard Sale Rally 16/6/96

Thanks for helping to prove my point. The PM acknowledges the obvious
fact that there are no 100% guarantees in life. So far however there
have been no firearm mass murders since 1996, a fact that strangely
seems to unduly disturb a number of pro-gun types.

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