Queensland Election
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Blame It On Bennelong
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9 SEPT 2006 - The ongoing political tragedy for the Coalition since Port Arthur continues with the QUEENSLAND State election today seeing the National and Liberal Parties failing to gain voter support because shooters have deemed them unfit to hold public office. The cause of this can be directly be attributable to the 1996 Gun Laws forced on them by the Federal Member for Bennelong John HOWARD.
This political malaise, not only in Queensland but other States, will not come to an end until John Howard realizes that things must change and 1996 Port Arthur gun laws go.
Some Queensland National Party officials have suggested the solution is merger with the Liberals but that idea is an illusion designed to explain away the true nature of the problem and will not address the cause of the voters refusing to vote of them.
Shooters will not vote for theives.which the National and Liberals were following Port Arthur and this fact is supported by the fact that all Coalition State Governments have been thrown out of office since 1996 and have failed to be re-elected since and there is no sign of change.
It is time for John Howard to admit he was wrong and commence a GUN GIVE-BACK to shooters who handed in guns ( at the rate of two guns of their choice for every one handed in in 1996 plus a case of ammo for each and a written apology ) along with the arrest and jailing of all those persons involved in the Port Arthur Massacre and all the other gun massacres that have been manufactured in Australia since 1987. Such a give back could be implemented under Federal Defence Legislation thereby bypassing the States if they refuse to co-operate.
This website would add its quite a feather in shooters caps what has been done to the Coalition since Port Arthur - it is being talked about all over the world to the point that the Republican Party in the USA fearing a similar situation decided to get rid of an assault weapons ban of the early 1990s. However should the Coalition take action to rectify this situation and follow the Republican's lead there will be light at the end of the tunnel.
13 SEPT 2006 - Media reports today revealed a Federal Parliamentary Coalition Party crisis meeting over the Queensland election result with a lot dissention in the ranks to the extent that Howard called for party unity and to stop the "mania" of changing State party leaders. All ShootersNews says is that it is not Coalition State leaders that is the problem it is the 1996 Gun Laws, and its time for change of tune regard them.
Associated with this malaise is the fact recently it was admitted the Federal Government is having difficulty getting young Australians to join our Defence Force Reserves.
This is not a surprise to ShootersNews because most of those volunteers come from families who have recreation firearms and they won't join because of the 1996 gun grab and vilification of shooters since.
If they cannot privately have a semi-auto rifle why would they want to co-operate with a Goverment that denied them the same.
* And it should be remembered that there has already been somewhat of a Gun GiveBack in Australia's recent politcal histrory - in 1988 immediately following the NSW State Election after Barry Unsworth's removal from office the Griener Govt returned to shooters those guns that had been handed in during the initial stages of Unsworth's gun grab.
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