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Family dead in Australia’s worst mass shooting in two decades. A family of seven people, including four children, was found dead Friday in an Australian village in what is being considered the country’s worst mass shooting in 22 years, officials said. Police are treating the incident as a murder-suicide and said they were not looking for any suspects, according to Australian news outlet ABC. https://nypost.com/2018/05/11/...ting-in-two-decades/ I feel for the family and to all Australians who will lose from the knee jerk political reactions. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | ||
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Its been on the news but the media hasn't ramped up about it yet. ------------------------------ A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!" | |||
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That's because it distroys the narative about "no mass shootings since Port Arthur, thanks to howards laws, etc ad nausea" that the Australian media trots out with smug glee every time something happens in the US or elsewhere. Being a smaller family the Hunt shooting in 2014 was conveniently swept aside with an amending of a definition to suit their narative  Of note though is the appearance of a new "ABC mass shootings expert" in early ABC WA media reports - a google search reveals whilst doing a PhD on Guns and the media - sounds like sociology rather than criminology  He's an ABC employee!!!Formerly Gun Barrel Ecologist | |||
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Who is this supposed expert? | |||
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Julian Knight and Martin Bryant are the fukn experts,perhaps the ABC should ask them for a few quote,both are mad as hatters. Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002 | |||
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MSN [news]Australia has already placed a post ''News in Cartoons '' which are nearly all anti NRA cartoons, another News item they had, gave more information on Port Arthur shooting than the WA shooting. Gun Laws are already and have always been strict in WA ,one woman interviewed already made the comment about ,tightening Gun Laws. | |||
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Initial ABC coverage included a quote about rising gun numbers since 1996 by Glynn Greensmith http://www.abc.net.au/radio/pe...n-greensmith/7347204 - lecturer in journalism and ABC staff member Formerly Gun Barrel Ecologist | |||
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IT's all over the US papers and news too. Even our little town ran a big article about it with pictures. Gotta give the anti's plenty to drum up their bullshit no matter where it happens or even "just" a family shooting, only requirement is guns being involved. Even had that "Famous picture" of your guns piled in the dump truck. Gotta drum up Aussies gun 'confication' too. George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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When faced with the loss of the “no mass shootings since 1996” narrative, gun control advocates start pushing for changes to storage and the number of firearms people can own: https://www.smh.com.au/nationa...20180512-p4zexq.html
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sensible policy that involves the local police, vets and others can be put in place to deal with this..... Yep,la la land headed idiot! Did he not stop to think that as we are a big country the nearest police maybe a days drive...or more away? He can sit in his office and plait his boyfriends shit and do something useful for a change ffs. Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002 | |||
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I only just read about this on another site. I haven't even seen it on the news. West Australia has had the toughest gun laws in the country for a long time. Particularly not allowing military calibres (the West Australians might correct me on this). Howard's post Port Arthur gun laws were going to be an expensive failure before they were implemented. A criminal doesn't obey the laws. These shootings should be attributed correctly to imbeciles and cowards. | |||
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.....can you imagine the cost, not to mention the incovenience to our already overworked police departments if you had to go to a police station when you wanted to get your firearms.... the cost to graziers if they had to get a vet everytime they had to put an animal down.....does this mean that anyone who has an argument with their wife/girlfriend or neighbour should have stress counselling and hand their knives, axes, sharp gardening implements and the car keys ( remember this is also a weapon you are licensed for !! ) to the local constabulary ??.....where do these idiots come from, obviously not the real world. As a sidebar, here in the land of Oz, just recently we had a " relationships expert " telling us that we should ask our babies if they " want " their nappies changed.......there is intelligent life here, but we're just visiting  As to the 12 hour delay, you had better hope that the fox or wild dog that's killing your sheep comes back after your safe has opened and your mate has turned up with the other key. Using these guidelines, anyone convicted of drink driving, road rage and similar driving offences should have to put in a two week notice to the police to get their car keys and be subject to the same restrictions..........gee, doesn't this all sound a bit silly ?? Roger | |||
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This "central repository" for firearms crap has been their catch cry for years. If banks and police stations can be robbed think of how convenient it would be for the bad guys if several thousand firearms were stored in the one place. Safes can be defeated by pointing a gun at the head of the key/combination keeper.........or someone that they care about. These people are just idiots........and they breed, and they vote. | |||
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Unfortunately its probably safest to assume it is also Greens firearms policy, the question then becomes how long before the ALP or Libs decide to pass a Greens "fireams security bill 20XX" in order to get Green votes for a crucial, at the time, bill of their own?? Worth printing a copy and pointing out how ludricous it is when next speaking local member, and then see how much of a party stooge they are.... Formerly Gun Barrel Ecologist | |||
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Someone who goes insane will find a kitchen knife, axe or car to carry out his mad design. Whatever the cost might be of producing nation-wide gun repositories and implementing Phil West's program would be better spent on improved mental-health services. | |||
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