Howard: I'm Protected, So the Rest of You Lot, Bugger Off, Mates!

An elderly Sydney couple are recovering after being brutally clubbed with a gun butt for the sake of a few dollars...The 76-year-old woman and her 82-year-old husband were punched and battered with the gun at their boarding house...the attacker burst in and marched him inside to find his wife...He then punched the woman in the head, knocking her down, before striking her, then her husband, with the butt of a sawn-off shotgun and running off...with the woman's handbag, containing a small amount of cash.

Well the Australian government was certainly nowhere to be seen when the attack occurred, and what chance does an elderly couple have against such an assailant?

Perhaps we should ask Prime Minister John Howard what he thinks of weaker people having the means to defend themselves against stronger predators:

[W]e will find any means we can to further restrict them because I hate guns. I don’t think people should have guns unless they’re police or in the military or in the security industry. There is no earthly reason for people to have...ordinary citizens should not have weapons. We do not want the American disease imported into Australia.

How are those taxpayer-funded armed bodyguards working out for you, Prime Minister? Thank goodness being an official makes you and your agents immune to gun disease!