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Sounds like a crazy person killed their family and themself to me, the cops aren't looking for anyone else, and for all we know the killer held the guns legally.
“We have no information to raise concern about wider public safety issues at this point in time.”
A mother and her four children are among the victims of a mass shooting that left seven people dead on a property in rural Western Australia on Friday – an apparent murder-suicide.
Officers from the Homicide Squad and Forensic Unit arrived from Perth on Friday. Police said they would not comment on possible motives, but were not seeking to apprehend a suspect.
"We have no information to raise concern about wider public safety issues," Mr Dawson said.
originally posted by: theatreboy
Even pump action shotguns are banned, and yet...
m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5af51c6ae4b032b10bf9150d
When will these gun control advocates realize that these events are not due to guns, but a loss of humanity, mutual respect, a loss of morals, and just plain insanity.
We need to address those issues, not gun control.
originally posted by: StallionDuck
Uhhhh
Did I just read the responses correctly?
FYI - It was a murder/suicide of one family.
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: Kryties
FYI - It was a murder/suicide of one family.
And the vast majority of shootings in America, including mass shootings, are domestic in nature and done with handguns. Yet for some reason, people want to act like 50 people getting killed by a guy with a rifle in a nightclub is the norm and we need to ban rifles.
The point is the chances of this happening in most places in Australia are EXTREMELY SLIM - proven by the fact that we don't suffer mass shootings (however you want to define them) in nearly as large a frequency as over in the US.
Yes, shootings still occur. But we're not dealing with a mass murder every few months - we get one every few years if that.
Once again I have to point out that we Aussies have said all this a hundred thousand times and yet you lot still keep coming back with nonsense and easily disprovable theories.
Keep trying though. What is that saying? "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result......."
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: Kryties
And it's a pretty slim chance that most Americans will ever be involved in a mass shooting.
A point I haven't made so I don't know why you're trying to debate me over it?
"We lot" don't, and I didn't advance any theories in my comment other than what I said.
originally posted by: CornishCeltGuy
a reply to: theatreboy
From your link...
Sounds like a crazy person killed their family and themself to me, the cops aren't looking for anyone else, and for all we know the killer held the guns legally.
“We have no information to raise concern about wider public safety issues at this point in time.”
I don't think this story in any way can be an argument against Australian gun laws. Nice try though, I'm against regulation myself, especially when illegal guns are so easy to buy, just expensive.
What about a shooting without the "mass" part? Australia doesn't suffer them in nearly as large a number (even per capita with population differences taken into account) either - yet American news reports shootings there every day.
"You lot" implies more than one. I never said you said it specifically, just that it is spoken a lot by people who are on your side of the debate. This is something you cannot deny.
The rest of your post is answered above as it was an extension of your previous misconception.