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    Quote Originally Posted by Beavis View Post

    How many firearm homicides or hunting accidents do we really have per year? For the number of people who take part in shooting sports, it's bugger all. You need to be careful that you don't end up being a Turkey voting for Christmas, for lack of a better analogy. The last thing we want is over regulation and the need to justify every facet of what we do to some desk driver in Wellington.
    Um man with scary black gun (or similar) sells shit loads of newspapers or gets lots of viewers whereas man runs another man over while drunk does not even make page 3

    Also the Police are clever in that there are only 250K FAL holders and not a big group of voters in the grand scheme of things where as Drivers or Drinker (in some cases both) are a far bigger group of ..........................................voters and not worth the risk of pissing off, yet I would suspect the cost of injuries caused by both things are rather more then shooting accidents. Similar to the shit smokers get
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