David Leyonhjelm: Trouble shooter
http://www.smh.com.au/national/david-leyonhjelm-trouble-shooter-20140623-3an2u.html
http://www.smh.com.au/national/david-leyonhjelm-trouble-shooter-20140623-3an2u.html
Anyone else slightly worried that this gun nut is going to have some power in the Senate and that Abbott might do deals with him? I may not like John Howard much but I love the gun laws he brought in back in 1996. It has arguably saved hundreds of lives and makes Australia a much safer place to live.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/david-leyonhjelm-trouble-shooter-20140623-3an2u.html
"All the people at [Sale that day] were the same as me," Leyonhjelm tells me, his light-blue eyes blazing. "Everyone of those people in that audience hated [Howard's] guts. Every one of them would have agreed he deserved to be shot. But not one of them would have shot him. Not one." He found it offensive, he adds, that Howard "genuinely thought he couldn't tell the difference between people who use guns for criminal purposes, and people like me". What personally outraged Leyonhjelm was having to surrender much of his private collection, at first rifles and later some pistols, when the bans were extended. "I had lots of semi-automatic rifles," he says. "I had an M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, the AR-15, the FN FAL, a Rasheed semi-auto and a Norinco ... I had to relinquish them all.”
Prior to the compulsory federal buyback, he'd kept the cherished weapons in his attic and "every now and then I would take them out and pat them ... It was a big thing not being allowed to have them any more. It was no solace to know I was getting paid money [to hand them back]. It was an insult. There I was, being presumed to be unsafe because some nutter had got himself hold of a semi-auto in Tasmania.”
http://www.smh.com.au/national/david-leyonhjelm-trouble-shooter-20140623-3an2u.html
Anyone else slightly worried that this gun nut is going to have some power in the Senate and that Abbott might do deals with him? I may not like John Howard much but I love the gun laws he brought in back in 1996. It has arguably saved hundreds of lives and makes Australia a much safer place to live.