THE anti-gun lobby does itself no favours when it picks on honest, hard-working country people, whose firearms are simply tools of their trade, writes Andrew Rule.
SAM Lee should know better. As chairwoman of the National Coalition for Gun Control she owes it to her supporters and all sensible Australians not to say silly things in public. It gives gun control a bad name, and that's no good for any of us.
People who actually know what they're talking about - police entrusted with registering guns and licensing shooters, for instance - must have rolled their eyes when they read Ms Lee's comments on gun ownership this week.
"Owning one firearm is meant to be a privilege," she wittered, "but owning two is meant to be limited to only those who can prove they have a legitimate special need to have more than one firearm. Victorian firearms laws have made it way too easy to gain a second or subsequent firearm."
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