...what nutcase argumentation - Australia has shown that it IS POSSIBLE & SUCCESSFUL to totally disarm a nation and just leave professional law enforcers in possession of guns. It took a conservative, right wing Prime Minister, John Howard (fat chance of THAT happening in the glorious U.S. of A) to react to another massacre committed by a madman at Port Arthur in the 1990s. From then on, guns were banned from private possession. The whole nation embarked on a gun destruction program and paid out the owners for the loss of their "virility replacement". Australia had a similarly pathetic - or should I say pathological - sentimental connection to guns (at least the immature childish men holding onto their illusion of masculinity) linking them