Yesterday two events took place that served to illustrate the culture of violence that is now part of Australian life.
In Melbourne three hundred people gathered for the funeral of Desmond " Tuppence " Moran, a member of a crime family who was shot dead in a coffee lounge at Ascot Vale over a week ago.
In Sydney Bob Knight (66) died at the wheel of his TNT semi-trailer, hit in the head by a stray bullet fired by a group of men fighting in a KFC car park on busy Milperra road.
Melbourne has been the scene of an ongoing gang war that has seen twenty-five brutal murders in recent years. All of the deaths have been gun related and the events have been used as the basis for a successful television series.
Sydney has seen turf wars between rival bikie groups, Asian crime gangs - and between Middle Eastern gangsters trying to control the drug trade. There seems to be no shortage of firearms - and shoot outs take no care to avoid injuries to innocent bystanders.
Gun crime was probably inevitable. It is on the increase in every other country in the world and the cause can be sheeted home to the huge profits to be gained from producing and distributing drugs.
There would be no profits if ordinary Australians had not developed a taste for illicit drugs. Marijuana is widely smoked at parties - and what are termed " recreational drugs " seem to be a must for rave nights and in the music scene.
Despite the ongoing efforts of the police - and huge successes from time to time - the money is so huge and the profits so overwhelming that we will never eradicate the drug culture and the criminals that profit from it.
Learn to live with gun deaths. That is not going to change anytime soon !
And hope that " Lady Luck " smiles upon you - and you don't have the misfortune to be " in the wrong place at the wrong time ".
Like Bob Knight !
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