Only in the U.S

**Big Dave** · 20th June 2006, 22:19

Originally Posted by scumdog

As you know - it does!!

Despite the toughest draconian (and most illogical) gun laws I have heard of.

If we're talking aus - Nothing illogical about it. Unless you have to deal with vermin - Farmer or Cop - you can't have one. There is no reason to have one. You can deal with everything in the bush with a stick - so you don't need one.

Works for me.

**imdying** · 20th June 2006, 22:36

Originally Posted by Big Dave

If we're talking aus - Nothing illogical about it. Unless you have to deal with vermin - Farmer or Cop - you can't have one. There is no reason to have one. You can deal with everything in the bush with a stick - so you don't need one.

Works for me.

So what happens when you come across a whole gaggle of Abo's? Can't possibly wipe em all out with just a stick!

**Timber020** · 20th June 2006, 22:38

The US has a huge problem with guns and lawyers, and the problem is remarkably simular

You only need one when someone else might use one against you. And you dont know why or when this might happen. And for that reason there are so many paranoid and dangerous people about, its enough to make others paranoid and dangerous.

The us isnt full of gun nuts and gang bangers, actually I think per head of population its got no more of either than our nation. For the most part is full of good, honest and frankly wonderful people. But that doesnt make the news does it?

**98tls** · 20th June 2006, 22:39

Originally Posted by imdying

So what happens when you come across a whole gaggle of Abo's? Can't possibly wipe em all out with just a stick!

why would you want to.

**jazbug5** · 20th June 2006, 22:41

Originally Posted by Big Dave

If we're talking aus - Nothing illogical about it. Unless you have to deal with vermin - Farmer or Cop - you can't have one. There is no reason to have one. You can deal with everything in the bush with a stick - so you don't need one.

Works for me.

Eh? We used to process loads of gun license applications every week when I worked in Brisbane- mostly rifles for pig hunting. Bloody confusing, and you did have to show you'd done an approved course within x time & then undergo a police check, but not impossible to get at all. Though if someone *really* wants a gun, not having a license generally does not stop them... the trouble is more that each person with a license etc owns at least one gun which can then be nicked and put into circulation...

**imdying** · 20th June 2006, 22:47

Originally Posted by 98tls

why would you want to.

Heh, don't make me add a smiley to that post

**jazbug5** · 20th June 2006, 22:48

Originally Posted by 98tls

why would you want to.

Sarcasm...

**Big Dave** · 20th June 2006, 22:49

Originally Posted by jazbug5

mostly rifles for pig hunting. ..

Yeah, see - dealing with vermin.

Little johnny says - if you don't have a valid reason - you can't have one.

Still works for me.

**Big Dave** · 20th June 2006, 22:53

Originally Posted by imdying

So what happens when you come across a whole gaggle of Abo's? Can't possibly wipe em all out with just a stick!

The only thing Aboriginal people have tried to do to me when I came across them in the middle of nowhere was try to sell me artifacts or just say g'day.

I never hung around Redfern too much however. You guys reckon Manurewa is tough!

**Ixion** · 20th June 2006, 22:59

But but but but --- that orstroyleen bush - it has SNAKES in it.

I mean SNAKES!. As in snakes!!!

Nasty poisonous sneaky SNAKES..

Sankes!

Did I mention that there are SNAKES.

Can hardly take on writhing hissing venom spitting poison-fang-dripping hordes of SNAKES with only a stick!

Need at least a machine gun! I mean, they're SNAKES.

I don't like snakes. (should be lotsa openings here for traffic cop jokes)

**Big Dave** · 20th June 2006, 23:56

stomp every 10th step and they piss off before you get there.
and you can still deal with a stick.

Mind you - back home I wouldn't wander off into the long grass for a slash at a ride stop like the way i do here.

Circumspect we is.

**Quartida** · 21st June 2006, 00:04

Gosh Ixion, you got a thing against snakes or something?

**Ixion** · 21st June 2006, 00:19

Well, I mean, they're SNNNNAAAAKKKES

Don't mind the non poisonous ones - cept the ones that try to squash you. But they don't have big signs on saying "I am poisonous", "I am safe". and even if they did, could you trust them? Sneaky little buggers, they'd probably think it was a great joke to switch signs.

I can just see it now, strolling through the Orstroylin bush armed only with a stick, and oh, look, there's a snake. Holding up a sign "Hi, I am a friendly harmless snake - honest I am".

So y' bend down to tickle it under the chin and PZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTT.

The sneaky buggers bitten you , and as you lie there writhing and dying, it wriggles away, off to the pub to chat up the busty barmaid (do snakes have tits? Well, whatever the snake version of hot totty is) and regale his mates with descriptions of the look on my face , laughing like mad.

While meanwhile the real harmless one is getting his jollies popping up in front of people waving the "Hi I am deadly poisonous kill you dead on the spot snake" sign, and watching them scream and turn somersaults trying to run away. Which must be rather a kick if you've grown up being the snake equivilent of the 65lb pipsqueak who always gets sand kicked in his face at the beach.(Prolly wears big spectacles too, and whatever the snake equivalent of a pocket protector is)

Not much consolation to me is it though? Being as I'm lying there, dead , like.

No, machine gun anything larger than an earthworm at sight I reckon is the only way. Sticks in orstorlyer be blowed. And sod Big Dave's little signs, I don't believe any of them.

**Quartida** · 21st June 2006, 00:39

That whole thing is hilarious, but this is the best:

Originally Posted by Ixion

But they don't have big signs on saying "I am poisonous", "I am safe". and even if they did, could you trust them? Sneaky little buggers, they'd probably think it was a great joke to switch signs.

Lol