What has Covid-19 ( or as many call it "the Wuhan Flu " ) to do with the legal, responsible use of sporting firearms ?

Ms Bossence claims it will result in "people losing their lives at the business end of firearms".

This is pure emotional supposition with no basis in fact.

To claim that a two-shot shotgun with a range of 40 metres is a weapon of mass destruction and along with cross bows (where did that come from?) are ultimate lethal weapons would perhaps indicate that Ms Bossence has watched a few too many Rambo films.

If as Ms Bossence claims, legitimate, tested and licenced sporting firearms owners will be the cause of more domestic violence and animal cruelty than the virus, it seems strange that she then says primary producers and farmers are entitled to possess firearms.

Is there some inherited gene that makes an accountant, pilot or plumber more dangerous to their family or community than a man or woman who works the land?

I think not.

It is time to give rather than to take.

I am prepared to accept a reduction of 25 per cent in my generous taxpayer-provided age pension provided that politicians and senior public servants accept a similar reduction to strengthen the federal government's financial base.

A precedent has already been set for such an arrangement - at the height of the Great Depression (1931), when the federal government and the state governments of the time cut the wages of all public servants by 20 per cent.

It is disappointing to hear there are so many age pensioners clamouring for larger handouts from the public purse pursuant to the Coronavirus crisis, when so many younger people in our community face the daunting spectre of longer term unemployment, with all its financial and social consequences.

Through no fault of their own.

It is this demographic which should be the focus of our attention and concern at this time.

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