If it means that the lives of innocent people like those at Port Arthur are spared and if the rest of us can walk around not worrying if someone else is packing heat then it is worth it.
That's the point. If only one other person had a gun to defend them, how many lives would have been saved?
Lindt Cafe the same, it was wolf in the chicken coup. Different story if a chicken had a gun. Keystone cops made it worse.
Let's start allowing, Off Duty Armed Forces personnel, security guards and etc, who wear arms in the course of their job, and Pistol Club members who have all been checked out allowed to wear conceal pistols in Public.
Like uncover Air Marshals when we had those Hijacking ages ago.
Take the incident of the 15 year old assassin who shot Curtis Pheng at the Police station with an illegal pistol supplied by Parramatta Mosque.Not a registered owner with no gun licence.
There were police with guns to stop him.Obviously he was meant to die to silence him.
Imagine if he went to a crowded shopping Mall, ( Port Arthur again, even after John Howard's Strict Gun laws in place) There would be no crusader to save many lives.
Guns are not the problem, it's whose hands they are in.
