Reply #1: my goodness gracious me!

[iverglas]

Paul said he thought the mugger was joking at first.

"I thought maybe it was a finger or something on my neck, but not actually a pistol," he said today.

You'd think with all that gun crime going around, he would have been a little less credulous, no?

A city with a population of nearly 4,000,000, and a mugging makes the front page.

Just imagine what they'd do with "dog bites man"!

Just imagine if a single firearm mugging made the front page in Los Angeles, and prompted government opposition leaders (who have no interest at all in criticizing the government, of course) to say (as that one said) that "gun crime was surging" ... or that their city "will end up like Los Angeles if we keep going the way we're going" ...

Too bad that if Sydney kept going the way it's going, that opposition leader's great-grandchildren won't be around to see it end up like Los Angeles.