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The word "midget" is widely considered a highly offensive and derogatory slur by most people with dwarfism and their advocacy organizations. Most importantly, use the person's name rather than a label, as their height is typically irrelevant in everyday interactions.

The first step in being a successful terrorist is making sure that no one gets an idea that you are a terrorist. The second step is to not telegraph you plans. Terrorist attacks rely on the element of surprise. If you want to succeed, keep quiet.

Yeah. I was being obtuse again, not aiming at anyone on this forum. Just a comment. At the moment the Conservatives are howling about misuse of funds for travelling by Labor politicians. If they become the Government sometime, Labor will howl about Conseervatives doing the same thing. Rapant thespianism.

So, the government of a small, multi-ethnic country is going to turn back nearly two thousand year's worth of human behaviour? Some might think tht Albo is a Kvnt, but he's definitiely not Kanute.

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" (John 8:7) where Jesus challenges accusers to examine their own faults before condemning.

That is the very problem with knee-jerking - unintended consequences. Once again the good intention adversely affected those for whom the intention was not met. There's a Latin saying, festina lente, which roughly translates as "hasten slowly", or its equivalent, "look before you leap".

When will politicians of teh Parties not in power folow the adage "If you can't say something nice, say nothing"?

Therein lies the problem to be overcome. If the Federal Government seeks to combine all the ownership databases, then a few million could be trown at the problem. I think that the electorate would accept the spending of tax dollars in that way.

I think that the current upsurge in anti-semitism has more to do with disgust at the Isreali government's excesses in Gaza and the West Bank. The Common People are now more aware of happenings in other countries than they were even 50 years ago thanks to the Internet. They don't like these excesses and now have more freedom in their own countries to express their disgust. Unfortunatley, this passionate disgust is not being considered by our politicians who are playing in a differnt game. As a result of this unrequited response from politicians, the Common People are acting without considering what their actions result in.

Perhaps shot by the father????

I wonder what the load of the .410 was - pellets or soilds. I suppose the autopsies and surgeries will answer that question.

I don't own any firearms. I don't want to own any firearms. But I can see that in the wake of Bondi there are cries for stricter firearm controls. The controls that have been mentioned often sound like knee-jerk reaction of people with little knowledge of firearm ownership in Australia. Let me say that I see ideas like restricting the total number of fireams held by an individual as being dificult to manage. Don't forget that the authroities only know about the registered firearms held by the community. We know that there are very many unregistered firearms in the community. Once again, any restriction on total number of firearms owned will only impinge on owners who are following current laws. How many is too many? A person might reasonably own several different types of firearms. Maybe one shotgun for hunting and another for target shooting. Maybe a centrefire rifle for kangaroos and another for pigs. And don't forget the .22 for rabbits and foxes. The first step that I fully agree with is the unification of records kept by States and Territories relating to licensed persons and registered guns. In this digital age unifying those records might only require the transfer of existing records from one database to another. It might need a bit of program development, but for years fingerprint records have been linked across States and Territories. Firearms licences only for Australian citizens???? Look at the ages of young Middle Eastern men using firearms in the drug and illicit tobacco wars. They are no doubt Australian citizens, having been born here. Here's the criteria: a child born in Australia gains citizenship if at least one parent is an Australian citizen or permanent resident at the time of birth; otherwise, they aren't automatically a citizen, but can acquire it on their 10th birthday if they've lived in Australia for their first 10 years. Protecting society from the misuse of firearms is an impossibility through laws, be they equitable or restrictive. Before slamming down on firearm ownership, careful consideration must be made of the consequences of any regulations proposed.

Do you believe that America acted out of the goodness of its heart towards the British Empire during WWII by providing arms and aid through Lend-Lease? If you do, you have had the wool well and truly pulled over your eyes, if the content of this video is to be believed. Sit back and watch this video and then think about its content in terms of your own knowledge of world politics and economics since WWII.

Don't let numbers fool you. Average can be defined as the sum of all the individual lengths in the sample divided by the total number of lengths in the sample. The actual individual lengths might show a distribution from smallest to largest that would look like a bell if the data was graphed. A bell-shaped distribution, or normal distribution, is a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve where most data points cluster around the center (mean, median, mode are equal), with frequencies decreasing equally as you move away towards the tails, representing common natural phenomena like height or test scores. So some item of data might be a wee willy and another a donkey dick. Taking the average of the data values might appease those whose measurement was close to the centre of the spread of data values.

How long did it take you to attain the skill to hit a bunny at 50 metres? Police recruits come from the general population, and that is a population that has not experience handling nor operating firearms. Also police are only permitted to carry a firearm whilst actually on duty. They don't carry what the Yanks call a backup gun, and almost none would take up shooting as a hobby. That means that the vast majority would not hold firearms licences and be members of shooting clubs to attend ranges to practise regularly. Would you be able to do it, say in a competition where the prize was $10,000 for hitting the bunny? That would be a pretty good stressor to put you off your aim. It's one thing to become proficient at shooting at a safety range where that training would take place, but quite different shooting to avoid collateral damage in an area where people are running about in panic. The first rule of shooting is that you don't fire into an area where you could hit something that should not be hit. By the way. I think that the video I posted was taken by a member of the public who was in a convenient place to film. It wasn't police video.