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When I was a young lad I used to go to Williamstown Rifle Range on the train from Eltham. I wore my school cadet army uniform and carried my Royal Enfield 303 on my shoulder with the bolt safely in the inside left pocket of my jacket. No one batted an eyelid!
I used to walk through the township with a mate when I was about fourteen on our way to shoot rabbits. I had a 22, he had a shotgun. No one again batted an eyelid.
People do use guns to kill other people.
The difference in those days was everyone knew who you were and where you were going. It is about trust.
They knew us well enough that they knew we knew what we were doing.
These days with disturbed people who go berserk with high powered weapons because they can, I am all for gun control.
A gun or rifle has only one function, that is to kill. There is no need to have them widely available in our society.
By all means join a gun club etc. if that is what you want to do. But leave all weapons where they are safe. Locked up in a safe. Or on a well run shooting range.
Bert
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