06-14-2008, 10:36 PM
crash Wrote:Im not sure if many of you guys would have heard about it, but a bit over 10 years ago down here, a headcase by the name of Martin Bryant let loose with an Armourlite assault rifle at a historical tourist location at Port Arthur in Tasmania.I've been saying that till I'm blue in the face. People want to blame the gun, but how is an inanimateobject accountable for the actions of a person? I've never heard of a gun, even a loaded one, standing up under its own power and pulling its own trigger.
Bryant walked into a smallish cafe that had one entry door, one exit door, that was cowded with 20 - 30 people. Doesnt sound like many I know, but the cafe space was not much bigger than 50 x 20 feet.
To cut a long story short, Bryant opened fire on the crowd with no discrimination killing men, women and children. This lead to one of the biggest gun reforms in Australia, I wont go into the details. At the time I was working for an American company and I was talking to my boss about it. He said to me "You know, where I come from, that guy wouldnt of even made it into the cafe because with the number of civilians around him carrying a registered firearm, someone would have took him out before he got there. Guns dont kill people son: People kill people"
It made me think..