NSW State Election ----------------------------------

Blame It On Bennelong Again --------------------------------------------------- Email: editor@shootersnews.addr.com

25 MARCH 2007 - Shooters added yet another notch to their gunbelt with the outcome of todays New South Wales State Election as the ongoing political tragedy for the Coalition since Port Arthur continues with that election seeing the Liberal and National Parties failing to win seats because shooters have deemed them unfit to hold public office. It is quite a feather in their caps.

This is the 21st consecutive state election loss for the Coalition parties since the 1996 Port Arthur gun grab - the greatest losing streak in Australian political history.

The cause of this can be directly be attributable to the 1996 Gun Laws forced on them by the Federal Member for Bennelong - PM John HOWARD.

There is simply no valid reason for shooters to vote for the Coalition, particularly Liberals, at state elections.

It should be pointed out the only time the NSW State Liberal & National parties have been able to win Government in NSW in the past 30 years was on the back of shooters support in rejecting the gun grab proposed by the ALP Unsworth Govt. in 1988. And they lost seats in the 1992 election after tampering with gun laws following the manufactured 1991 Straithfield Massacre.

And Howard ( then federal opposition leader in 88 ) being from NSW ought to have known better in 1996 to repeat an Unsworth act given all that went on in 1988.

These political facts are undeniable evidence of political realities and it now is clear for decisive action to stop the rot. Howard must stand down.

What is required is the annoucement 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.

( For overseas readers - this election result means the equivalent if, for example, the US Republican Party lost every state legislature majority in every state of the union for a 10 year period with no sign of change in this trend ).



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