Well I for one do think that there has been a rise in gun crime in Aust recently.
adelaide , melbourne , sydney, brisbane are having more drive bys etc. It seems to be drug instigated and mainly druggies cop it .
However shooting has always been on the go in aussie. Remember the german whou used people in the kimberly for target practice, I think a dozen was the score.
I have had guns untill the dwaf interviened, because of where, and for whom i worked. we were supplied with govt issue side arms or rifles.
With guns it is easy to produce good arms from any well equipped workshop, and SA cops found one of these bikey backed workshops the other week.
So what do you do .....ban workshops????????
Imagine what will happen in the USA if a major event causes mass civil unrest.
All those guns no the streets. All those gun fanatics.
Sorry I have no evidence to support my statement... The laws are very close on gun owner ship ... I am Canadian too Ay ... Oh Canada oh Canada... Bla bla
Morgan Freeman's brilliant take on what happened yesterday :
"You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.
It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single *victim* of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.
CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.
You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news."
Every time there's an event like this gun sales go up. I assume also that membership of the NRA goes up as well.
So given that the NRA and the gun industry receive a direct financial and politic benefit from each massacre why do we think they have any interest in limiting future disasters?
The Morgan Freeman thing is a hoax. It comes from a joke where "... everything sounds important when it is said in Morgan Freeman's voice ..." That's why (or because) he plays god in so many movies. lmgtfy.com/?q=morgan+freeman+guns
If you take the gun advocates seriously you would end up with teachers dressed in bullet proof armour carrying assault weapons. Australian kids wear sun hats and legionnaire caps. American kids would have kevlar vests and carbon fibre helmets.
This exactly what is proposed by people ( lmgtfy.com/?q=wish+to+god+m-4 ), unlike the "slippery slope" argument (if you ban guns then you have to ban everything else) which is absurd.
