RUDD NAMES HIS FRONT BENCH, BUT WILL HE GIVE SAME SUPPORT TO ALL AUSSIE WANKERS?

Whatever you think of non-core John, he has left us a rich legacy - I have spread some of it around the roses and they seem to be doing okay, but the weeds really love it!

I don't know about the GST on tissues but I do know that it won't be long before "honest" Kev starts the usual back-pedalling and flip-flopping that has been the hallmark of the state ALP governments. And when he does I will be on his arse.

Digger,

Cranbourne

Digger, don't you mean "up" his arse, like you were with crazy old John What's-his-name?

Rudd - stonewalling on MP code of ethics - who would have thought

Day 7 and counting - How long before Rudd gives back the guns that the previous tyrant stole?

Maybe China has to give permission first. I have a compound bow - and they ARE legal. Powerful, deadly - and quiet! Made out of magnesium and very light also.

So, you have no problem with your Big Nanny Government keeping you as well armed as the aborigionees and indians that were quickly defeated and eradicated over 300 years ago.

Bows and Arrows.

Meanwhile, in the US, your kinfolk are alowed the dignity to defend themselves and not rely on Big Nanny to "defend" them after a crime has been committed.

Bows and Arrows. How do you carry one of those on you to insure that some gang won't slice your guts out at midnight while taking cash out of an ATM machine?

In the age of high tech weapons and rappid firing weapons, you are content to have your "legal" bow and arrow. WOW! What drugs did you have to ingest to get you pacified enough to be content with your government LETTING

Ricky, an arrow with a sharpened cutting tip can go right through a sandbag that stops a bullet. But you knew that already.
If you want to travel light after "civilization" totally collapses, archery is probably the way to go. Ricky, if you really feel a deep compulsion to kill a lot of people, you don't need a gun. Spreading disease is probably how governments will finally do it - vaccination programs.

How can you defend yourself from yourself?

you shoot'in sandbags, then yer bow and arrow will work right fine. Bullets are designed for killin animals, including human animals. In fact, many bullets are designed NOT to over penetrate, to expand on impact and cause as much damage and shock to animal flesh as possible.

It ain't the penetration that kills; it's the effective delivery of shock to flesh that kills.

But, you knew that already.

Ricky I don't want to butt in, but damage and shock to a sandbag is no great threat.
BTW, have you any great insights on the latest American suicide gunner to defend the American way by blasting a pile of citizens in a shopping mall?

They guy was a convicted felon, he should have been in jail. The leftwing liberals that let him free should be executed.

This was just another example of what happens when nutty criminals bent on killing people for no reason arm themselves and law abiding citizens are prohibited from carrying firearms in public places to swiftly eradicate and deter such a threat.

I'm not deeply fearful of guns (not lesbian) Ricky, so I have no agenda. Do you reckon that a fire-fight in the shopping mall between the shoppers and the crazed gunman could work well?
Could you paint a scenario of how such a conflict would be run in your ideal world? I think it might make an excellent movie plot.

In a mall, demonstrating that WE THE PEOPLE will defend ourselves, will fight, will kill aggressors when threatened, will deter others from walking into crouded places and with the intent to kill harmless, unarmed citizens.

It's a lot easier to do what was done thinking "well, I'm gonna take as many as I can before I kill myself" than, "the minute I pull a firearm in a croud mall, others will be the hero by making swiss cheese out of me".

In the wild, the weak and defenseless get devoured. You better be prepared to fight to the death, otherwise you are a sitting duck for Alligators and unscrupulous duck hunters.

Ricardowizz I reckon the Feds might have your number, chum!

Kev could get in all our good books if he lives up to his initial promise to take the GST off tissues. For sure he'd win the next election if he did!

@Cynical observer The 'News readership predicting the future once again!