Mother and four children among seven dead in worst shooting in Australia for 20 years

Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 11 months ago to Culture
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Wow, a nation where you can't have guns, and THIS HAPPENS? Wait a minute, taking all the guns away stops this! Rogue gun elements? Proof of the whole flawed theory....

The incident is the worst mass shooting in Australia since a lone gunman killed 35 in Tasmania in 1996.

The massacre prompted the nation to introduce tough gun controls, whose supporters include former US president Barack Obama.

Since then the only ‘mass shooting’ – four deaths excluding the shooter in a single event – in Australia was in 2014 when a farmer shot his wife and three children before killing himself.

Farmers are allowed to own guns under Australian law because they have a legitimate need to use them to kill feral pests and predators or sick or injured livestock.

Automatic and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns are banned from public ownership.

Samantha Lee, chair of the Gun Control Australia lobby group, said rural areas were over-represented in Australian gun deaths, including suicides.

She said: “Regional and rural areas are particularly vulnerable to these sorts of tragedies, because of the combination of isolation, sometimes mental or financial hardship and easy access to firearms.


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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Barry is, and was, and will always be, an ignorant ass, who is a weasel who does whatever, and says whatever, he wants people to believe.
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  • Posted by $ Radio_Randy 6 years, 11 months ago
    This anti-gun twit either is ignorant or a liar.

    It's big cities that have the largest percentage of "these sorts of tragedies"...probably due to the crowded conditions. Rural areas are better off, because the people that live there understand what life is really about.

    If she was even marginally correct in her assumptions...wouldn't the major cities be building walls or checking IDs to ensure we rural's don't try to come in and take over???
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 11 months ago
    Gun control works as well as bladder control. It only works when it's too late to do anything about it.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 6 years, 11 months ago
    they surrendered their natural rights to defend themselves...and relied on the totalitarian state to protect them....
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Love to watch videos of Aussie professional shearers. Trying to do it one tenth as well myself. It's a job for men one third my age.

    Glad I'm not there, though. I could own a gun here, legally, "if I wanted to."
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    LOL! Read what exceller wrote here yesterday. Reading it again today "un-dead politicians" kick-started my imagination, and me dino just imagined The Evil Hag as a "walker" on The Walking Dead TV series.
    One bite and you're infected with Progressive Demonology.
    Wonder if cackling could be screenplay written in an ominous survival of the un-dead fittest adaptation.
    Me dino has seen all The Evil Dead flicks. In a The Army Of Darkness remake, The Evil Hag could be that possessed old woman who, at the end of the movie, says "I'll eat your soul!"
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  • Posted by tdechaine 6 years, 11 months ago
    I was in Australia during that Tasmanian shooting. The people were outraged and they had the killer in convicted in weeks. That led to the gun restrictions. Yet before that incident, guns were not an issue - little crime existed. And little more existed between that incident and the eventual restrictions. And lo and behold, we see these killings despite the restrictions. What's the real problem?
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino lost all my guns too, including the little one always carried concealed in my right front pocket and a bigger one in my glove compartment.
    Not to mention the other four the Sandman stole while I slept.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yep, tis true. Oregon liberals want to ban the evil assault weapons. Mine fell in a lake when I overturned my canoe, which was then bitten by a great white. Prove it otherwise....
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hence the "Deep State" it is a lot more than politics, that is one of the tools, and people seem to have missed it.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well they do have a lot of them...the 4 legged ones....now 2 legged as well, just a subspecies...
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  • Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No doubt about it. Well they have been working hard for 100+ years and the assault on reason has many tentacles .
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  • Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    While I am not yet a believer, I would love to see Qanon's predictions of long jail time for 2 former Dem presidents and one DEM almost president.
    Solitary confinement today until one flips on the other two. Then solitary confinement for life ;^)
    America does not negotiate with terrorists.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 11 months ago
    If they had not had guns, they probably would have used poison.
    Australia's leaders have mentally prepared the people to be sheep.
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  • Posted by exceller 6 years, 11 months ago
    I see Obama is meddling as always.

    There are un-dead politicians we will never be able to get rid of. H Clinton is the other one.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 11 months ago
    In the seventh grade we had a class that was discussing the future. A question was asked what will be the biggest challenge in the future? I said mental illness. I didn't know too much back then,
    But with a trillion dollars spent on big pharma
    The problem is only getting worse. Have some
    Ritalin or Adderal start them young. Create cognative dissonance in school by ignoring reality.
    Brain wash the sheeple , ignore responsibility.
    Destroy face to face social interaction. Text and bully those who don't follow the crowd.
    Mom and Dad ignore your death do us part vow.
    Give your kids that warm feeling of abandonment.
    Bring outsiders into the family like a revolving door.
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