I was chatting with Kendall when the chat server hung on me the other day. I was about to tell him that we Aussies have never had a similar obsession with guns. Rural areas have a few more, but there has never been a great desire for every Aussie kid to own a Daisy Air gun - of all the kids I knew in Primary & Secondary School, only a couple ever had one - never known of a girl with one. I never had one, even though I would have liked one - my relatives and parents had been in the Military during WW I & II.

My mother went to the USA to see her dying sister who had been a war-bride. She was staying in her house, and there was talk of a prowler. Mum was offered a handgun, which she refused. She said that it was most likely a young boy, harmless. A few weeks later they found him and she was right. Some trigger happy scared nutter could have shot him.