Georgie PURCELL (Northern Victoria) (09:59): How many guns are too many? Well, according to Jacinta Allan, the limit does not exist. The government’s rejection of the most important recommendation from the rapid review that it commissioned into Victoria’s firearm laws to cap individual firearm ownership must be called out for what it is: placing the interests of duck shooters and the shooting lobby over the safety of all Victorians. Like many Victorians, I am outraged, but I am hardly surprised. It is exactly the sort of thing we warned would happen if they caved on issues like duck shooting. Since then we have seen the power of the gun lobby in this state continue to grow and grow, whether it be the minister making a policy announcement at a private shooting function or inviting them into Parliament to make content with government MPs. Every single time that they have been faced with decisions on the wellbeing of animals, the planet and now people, they have given in to the demands of firearm owners. Every single day it seems like Victoria is becoming more like America. It feels like it is only a matter of time until we hear someone from the government say, ‘Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.’ It is not hard to see who is really calling the shots in Victoria.