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Storage? I am Storage!
Yup: 70% figure, source: Jake the Dog. 
Because guns are rare in Oz, Mr Giver, offences such as discharging them in a public place or carying a gun as a concealed weapon are, thankfully, also rather rare. And even if they were not, the point is irrelevant: both are serious crimes. One causes alarm and risks injury to innocent people, the other is evidence of the willingness to do violence and is, quite properly, regarded as a serious offence in itself, just as in days gone by (and quite possibly still today) it was a crime to walk around a residential district at night carrying jemmy, screwdriver and lock picks.
Unlike guns, knives are an essential part of everday life for both violent and normal, non-violent people too. Unlike guns, you have a very good chance of escaping from an attack with a knife: you can run away, fight back, or survive the injury. Your assailant must be willing to close to close quarters and brave whatever defence you can muster. He must be able to run faster than you can, and he cannot, under any possible circumstances, murder many people at the same time.
Even so, there have been moves over the last year or two here in Victoria to restrict the carriage of knives, clubs, and other similar things in public places, especially in known trouble spots like outside certain nightclubs.
Because guns are rare in Oz, Mr Giver, offences such as discharging them in a public place or carying a gun as a concealed weapon are, thankfully, also rather rare. And even if they were not, the point is irrelevant: both are serious crimes. One causes alarm and risks injury to innocent people, the other is evidence of the willingness to do violence and is, quite properly, regarded as a serious offence in itself, just as in days gone by (and quite possibly still today) it was a crime to walk around a residential district at night carrying jemmy, screwdriver and lock picks.
Unlike guns, knives are an essential part of everday life for both violent and normal, non-violent people too. Unlike guns, you have a very good chance of escaping from an attack with a knife: you can run away, fight back, or survive the injury. Your assailant must be willing to close to close quarters and brave whatever defence you can muster. He must be able to run faster than you can, and he cannot, under any possible circumstances, murder many people at the same time.
Even so, there have been moves over the last year or two here in Victoria to restrict the carriage of knives, clubs, and other similar things in public places, especially in known trouble spots like outside certain nightclubs.
