I accidentally shot a .22 into the ground one day when I was about 17. Have no idea why it was loaded and cocked, I must have decided not to take the shot I'd cocked it for, but struth I got a fright when it went off.
A mate of mine from the meatworks was missing a large chunk of his leg which he'd put a round of ratshot into when climbing over a fence or something.
At that same meatworks I was knocking the cattle with the bolt gun which I didn't have anywhere near sufficient training to have my hands on. I nearly shot myself through the chest with it once, and another time when the bolt got jammed out I pushed it back in against a steel guardrail forgetting I'd reloaded it already. When the firing pin hit the primer the bolt went out again, and the whole gun sailed out of my hand and landed in the blood pit. Had it hit anyone in the head it may well have done permanent or fatal damage. Still get the chills thinking about it.
One of the blokes there did accidentally shoot himself through the chest. Missed his heart by a few centimetres. Lived to tell me about it at the pub years later.
he plays footy Log Man, in fact if he expresses interest in a sport or hobby we have a look at it and if he's willing to comply with the rules and expectations of the sport he's got the green light from me, could get a game for the West Coast after last week's effort
OMG don't let him play footy! 
If we apply the anti-gun crowd's logic, he will end up a drunken, chauvinist, drug user who rapes 16 y/o girls in hotel rooms and bonks his mate's wife.
Same as all who use guns are psycho killers (or at the very least bit weird)
wade page, the bloke who just shot 6 dead in the sikh temple and is an ex-serviceman, wrote this in response to tightened gun laws in the us. does any of the reasoning sound familiar?
In 2011, Page wrote an e-mail — with a subject line reading, "No registering of long guns" — to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives: "Wake Up!!!! No more restrictions on law abiding gun owners! These restrictions do nothing about the criminals they are meant to affect. Why punish and render defenseless the very people that deserve to be protected while HELPING the offenders with such laws? The only other use for such laws is for government to gain control over the people. This is America, and I AM THE GOVERNMENT, not you! Remember who you work for, and your oath!"
^^^ nup , it was the bullets...
That or racial and religious prejudice and access to firearms, and probably a healthy dose of being ****ed in the head.
Just sad really that more innocent people who thought they were safe in there place of worship have been killed cause they are different.
i agree that it's the people not the guns that do the killing. i used to shoot bunnies and targets when i was younger. in principle, everyday people should have the right to own and use firearms- the vast majority are sensible and responsible.
unfortunately allowing access also puts firearms in the reach of nutbags, and it's simply not worth it. yes it's a shame, yes it's unfair, and yes something is wrong with society, but that's the way it is.
Yep a gun without bullets is just a club
If someone points a gun at me it is definitly not a club loaded or not.
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But we're looking at the issue from a public safety standpoint (I assume), law abiding gun ownership vs. public safety, car ownership vs. public safety. From this point of view the cars are by far the more dangerous instrument. It doesn't matter what it was originally designed to do, my hunting rifle was never EVER designed to kill people, yet in the wrong hands it could so same as a car.
BTW Bushwalkers get lost/fall and sometimes die (added due to the topic of accidents raised erlier)...
I think Australia was one step too far as far as gun bans go (as, for better or worse, we don't have the 2nd amendment issue here).
