Shootings in Australia (1 Viewer)

[Krodwhodat]

Darwin shooting: Australia reels from worst rampage killing in decades

 

[brandon8283]

Proof that gun laws can't stop every crazy person with a gun.

Just most of them.

 

[GeauxWhoDats]

Since the invention of the rock, man has been killing each other and it should never be acceptable. This story has nothing to do with Assault Rifles, Trump, or even the US but the spinsters (on both sides) will use it for fuel for the fire for their own political agenda.

It is a shame that 4 people lost their life and the narrative is focused on politics.

 

[brandon8283]

It is a shame that 4 people lost their life and the narrative is focused on politics.

It's a shame that we hide behind the deaths as a way to divert attention from how to prevent the deaths in the first place.

And.....I'm out.

 

[GeauxWhoDats]

It's a shame that we hide behind the deaths as a way to divert attention from how to prevent the deaths in the first place.

And.....I'm out.

I haven't figured out if you understand my post or if I understand your post.

 

[dgrant]

@brandon8283 It is ironic that your title is "probably a drive-by" when you are vehement about stricter gun laws. Is that on purpose?

 

[brandon8283]

@brandon8283 It is ironic that your title is "probably a drive-by" when you are vehement about stricter gun laws. Is that on purpose?

Nah. Drive-by sheet posting is my MO.

But the irony is pretty interesting, no arguments there.

 

[Saint_Ward]

Well, let's look at the situation.

On the long, bloody list of US gun violence, it would barely be a blip, but the killing of four people in northern Australia has caused shock in the country most often held up worldwide as an example of effective gun control.


At least four people were killed in the city of Darwin and several injured when a gunman opened fire with a pump-action shotgun late Tuesday night in several different locations, police said. A suspect was apprehended soon afterward, and has been identified as 45-year-old local Ben Hoffmann, according to CNN affiliate 9 News. Hoffmann was on parole at the time of the killings.

It is the worst spree shooting in Australia since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, which resulted in the country radically overhauling its gun laws, and the worst gun-related crime since a murder-suicide last year in Western Australia, in which a grandfather killed his entire family and himself.

Killing 4 people, with a pump-action shot gun was the worst gun related incident in 23 years.

Let that sink in.






The pump action shot gun was likely stolen from 1997. So, it was hidden away for 22 years.

Their suicide rates are down a lot, due to the lack of easy access to a quick death.