Thanks Doug, Max. The gun lobby here is still small as far as I know and
the gun buyback scheme was a rare example of cross-political sense. Senator
David Lyonhelm (sp?) is an exception, an independent nutter who has been
courted by US gun groups and has attempted to argue that the buyback did
not reduce mass killings and that good guys need guns, that sort of piffle.
Bill
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Your title gave me hopes of a whole poem in some sort of vernacular,
>
> but in retrospect it now seems like a quotation but where from?
>
> Oops, sorry, I just got it, slow wasn’t I - Australia…
>
> I was about to say your selection of copycat behaviors could now be
> counterweighted by a a further selection of contrasting ones.
> Or do you predict a powerful gun lobby down under will get all Aus armed
> some time…?
> etc
>
> Max in Seattle
>
>
>
> On Jan 19, 2016, at 14:08, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Us trail yer
> >
> > We do.
> > Too often.
> > We follow
> > the lead
> > of our white
> > English speaking
> > Northern cousins.
> >
> > Be it education,
> > foreign policy, even
> > spoken language,
> > we grab at
> > the tails
> > of the USA
> > or the Old Dart.
> >
> > Good idea, Finland:
> > abolishing tests
> > in schools, insisting
> > on Masters degrees
> > for teachers,
> > we don't say,
> > despite stunning stats.
> >
> > Just because
> > his surname
> > suggested outback
> > we didn't have to
> > go Bush,
> > enter Iraq
> > or middle any East.
> >
> > Nice days
> > get wished on us
> > whether we
> > like it or not.
> > Come on (A)Us,
> > stop trailing,
> > start being.
> >
> > bw
>
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