GUN-CONTROL- CONTROVERSY by Desmond Kelly What IS the controversy here,what.IS the problem? , I cannot see any problem at all. In Australia,s former Liberal Prime Minister John Howard decided, a few years.ago, to have as many unregistered firearms as.possible, handed in, to be disposed of, the reason being that while a much greater percentage of people here understood the handling of these instruments of death, did the right thing registered the unregistered guns and even had them “stored” correctly in their homes, there were a few nut-cases who, feeling very tough with a gun in their hands, went out and killed innocent people. If they don’t have “guns”, killers will unfortunately use other methods, knives, bombs, their bloody hands, if they have to. There is no mystery here. Guns have been around since Adam was a boy (well, shortly after, anyway). We do know what happened in Australia to try ...