from Courier Mail and cairnsnews.org
QUEENSLAND schoolgirls are picking up guns in record numbers
Schoolgirls have warned the idiot of the anti-gun lobby Roland Browne to get a life.
Recreation and competition shooting associations are reporting a surge in junior members, particularly girls, a trend that is firing up Gun Control Australia which is pushing for a ban on under-18s handling firearms.
If the idiot of the anti-gunners, Roland Browne placed a kilogram of black powder in his ear it wouldn’t blow the wax out of his head!
The Sporting Shooters’ Association of Australia has several thousand Queensland children as members and president Geoff Jones reports a recent spike in girls’ involvement.
There is a similar trend in competition shooting. In 2010, 18 per cent of Queensland Target Shooters juniors were female. This year one third are girls. In Queensland, kids aged 11 and over can obtain a minor’s gun licence.
Gun Control Australia has urged a Senate inquiry into firearms to lift the legal age to 18, a move that shooting bodies and parents warn will end Australia producing elite shooting champions.
“The reason why so many parents are happy to have their kids involved is because they see the rigid safety protocol,” Mr Jones said. “We have a great reputation for safety in Australia and we are reaping the rewards of that in junior participation. There is only one live round in the gun, kids use age appropriate weapons – no semi-automatics – and there are step-by-step safety rules.”
Cairns News has been advocating that every responsible home owner who makes the request, receives firearm training and is issued with a military rifle in the same manner as Switzerland.
With the open threat to our safety and well being by less than 2% of the population.
The abrogation of responsibility by either of the two main parties.
It should he mandatory that eve y home should have at least one firearm.