“You clowns have gone too far this time, your agenda of trying to destroy what’s left of the shooting community is finally exposed. You have nothing to offer Aussie shooters except grief and ammunition for the antis.”

I don’t care if she gets a few votes from people who think ACA took advantage of her innocence, if the price of that is damaging the image of all active shooters.

I firmly believe that individuals should be judged on themselves, not others who have no relationship to them – this looks like a GREAT way to see if people will change their vote to support that principle.

The news report I saw today looks like it is already being archly used to show what kind of people sporting shooters are. Top move LDP.

The primary problem with gun laws today is that legal shooters are unfairly demonised, over-regulated and taxed for their sporting choice. Conceal & carry should be a debate for another day.

Having said that, I don’t think the police are normally more fit to carry a firearm, and they manage not to kill people on a daily basis. So I think the fear campaign against guns is often over-played. But I guess fear is the prime currency in politics so we need to be aware of that.

Anyway, as Jacques says, it’s not a central issue for us. Our main concern is the nanny state & the tax level.

Congrats Jacques, and good luck!

But there are a number of dead Australians who might have been saved, knowing their danger from an ex-spouse or an offended bikie gangster, yet were not allowed in law the option of proper self-defense.

But SO irrelevant to the business of getting elected in this election.

That should be left up to the owner of the mall.

Good on you!! Democracy in Austrlia may be severly injured but so long as people like you are prepered to stand up, it still stands a chance of surviving.

Beware of the news media. They will do their best to ignore you because you are outside the One-Faction-Three-Parties swindle. If they do contact you, be ready to be misquoted, quoted out of context, have serious ommissions from what you said. Don’t blame the journalists; they’re only doing their job; the dirty tricks always come from higher up.

Door knocking with a note book and talking to people face-to-face is always more effective than horribly expensive ads [the obvious downside is that withour huge electorates, you'll never get to talk to everyone]. Promise nothing; people prefer someone who is fair dinkum instead.

Best of luck.

Compared to them, Bird is King Solomon.

Wow. I’ve met bird and I literally cannot think of a worse candidate for the LDP. Seriously.

I sure hope he’s paying his own AEC fees.

yet you are from WA and are standing in the NT. Whats up with that?

I was born and raised in Darwin.

In respect of the firearm policies, I feel they are unrealistic.

Yep.

You should see some of the candidates the major parties have put up over the years. Compared to them, Bird is King Solomon.

In respect of the firearm policies, I feel they are unrealistic. It is better to be effective than right. If you can’t get elected in big numbers you can’t implement radically different policies, even if they are based on accurate observations.

This policy does not offer any hope of countering the hate laws of 1996, because they are by Australian standards MORE radical than fruitloop Green policies.

So Jaques, will I see you at the LDP launch in Perth?

My answer is that I remain at odds with the party on that point, but it’s not my priority. See my post on the topic: http://clubtroppo.com.au/2007/04/19/libertarians-easier-to-wedge-than-lefties/

Do you stand by this part of the LDP platform:

Those who wish to carry a concealed firearm for self-defence are entitled to be issued with a permit to do so unless they have a history or genuine prospect of coercion.

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There should be no special prohibitions on semi-automatic firearms.

Being more specific, should I be allowed to carry semi-automatic pistols into a crowded shopping mall?