It is legal, Makjavel, to own the civilian version once you get a licence.

“Civilian” version is in semi auto, meaning you press the trigger for every shot.

“Assault rifle” is nothing but a name for the object used in close fighting during the culmination of a military attack.

An assault rifle will have the same furniture but automatic fire is possible, and before you ask, no, you cannot modify the former into the latter.

We tend to misinterpret the words, because anything can be used as an assault weapon: a baseball bat, a kitchen knife…

Which explains astro-turf available in rolls at every well-meaning garden centre.

It costs relatively nothing to parade a few people in wheelchairs around the place or pay to take them out, and it’s a highly visible way of ‘looking good’ – the most visible way, in fact, because when there are wheelchairs, you can’t miss them.

The people who really do good do so privately. You never know who they are or what they doing.

Anton Rea Cutajar’s behaviour does not fall into the category of ‘doing good’ but of public relations for himself.

People who are naturally good and kind do not rant and rave against suffering people who have just made a terrible journey in a rickety boat to reach Europe. They do not hate refugees.

Anton Rea Cutajar is one of the horrible Maltese savages who infested Cecilia Malmstrom’s Facebook page with vulgar remarks and aggressive language back in 2013 when his hero Joseph Muscat was busy with Manuel Mallia, stirring the pot about pushbacks.

Here’s a little break from screeching over square engines and air conditioned safety cells.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdWgmp4TaQ

Imbilli ddahhal xi wiehed jew wahda go wheelchair ghand iz-zoo illegali tieghek minghajr hlas – dak mhux kaz ta’ taghmel il-gid lil min hu aghar minnek.

But of course you have no doubt, Anthony – how could you?

These are people of great honour and integrity and to top it all they form part of the elite of ‘Taghna Lkoll Club.