....and roses
"What happened in
that cafe (Lindt hostage incident,
Sydney) would have been most unlikely to have occurred in Florida, Texas, or
Vermont, or Alaska in America.., " so declared Liberal Democrat
senator David Leyonhjelm promoting the need for guns in "self defence" .
A number of things are also most unlikely to occur in the
U.S. such as social welfare for the under-privileged, job security, tolerance
for the less fortunate and so on. The Senator was advocating the right of
Australian citizens to bear arms after the siege incident earlier in the week,
More likely to occur are shootings and rampages that have seen innocents and students gunned down by some delusional maniac.
Thankfully his remarks were dismissed by most sane people
including the former PM John Howard who oversaw the surrender of a vast number
of illegal arms after the Port Arthur massacre in April 1996.
The ensuing floral tribute in Martin Place says much more than the Senator's mutterings.
