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Conservatives in Australia apparently are much smarter than the brand we are cursed with in the US. Their gun restrictions are quite effective, and touted by our great President Obama as a model for this country to follow.
Unfortunately, the US is hampered by Conservatives who simply want to obstruct, and have no rational reason why they oppose this President on gun restrictions.
Childers Palace Backpackers fire
23 June 2000
Childers, Queensland
Dead: 15
Arson attack by Robert Paul Long, which killed 15 international backpackers
Monash University Shooting
21 October 2002
Melbourne, Victoria
Dead: 2
A shooting spree by Huan Yun Xiang, a student at Monash University
Churchill Fire
7 February 2009
Churchill, Victoria
Dead: 10
Arson attack by Brendan Sokaluk that killed 10 people, during the Black Saturday bushfires period
Lin family murders
18 July 2009
North Epping, New South Wales
Dead: 5
Blunt instrument attack which killed 5 members of the Lin family
2011 Hectorville siege
29 April 2011
Hectorville, South Australia
Dead: 3
A shooting that took place on 29 April 2011, in Hectorville, South Australia. It began after a 39-year-old male, Donato Anthony Corbo, shot four people on a neighbouring property (three of whom died), and also wounded two police officers, before being arrested by Special Operations police after an eight-hour siege.[9]
Quakers Hill Nursing Home Fire
18 November 2011
Sydney, NSW
Dead: 11
Arson attack by Roger Kingsley Dean, a nurse, which killed 11 people
Hunt family murders
9 September 2014
Lockhart, New South Wales
Dead: 5
Murder-suicide shooting spree by Geoff Hunt who killed his wife and three children before turning the gun on himself
Cairns child killings
19 December 2014
Cairns, Queensland
Dead: 8
Stabbing attack. 8 children aged 18 months to 15 years killed. Thirty-seven-year-old woman also found injured. The woman, Raina Mersane Ina Thaiday, was later charged with the murder of the children, 7 of whom were hers, plus her niece.
And, OP, you can get bonus points if you tell me how many mass killings America would have if we used the author of this articles ridiculous parameters. How many?
Here's the criteria I quoted from the linked article: "defined by experts there as a gunman killing five or more people besides himself"
Now, go through the famous MotherJones list of 300 hundred mass shooting in America and apply those same parameters. And while you're at it, get us the racial demographics of all the shooters. Ready? Set? Go!
That's what I thought.
Last edited by TrafficCory; 12-04-2015 at 08:51 PM..
Mandatory gun buy-back is confiscation. NY state can't get 50% of the gun owners to register their weapons. How many people in TX will give up their guns?
GUNS IN OTHER COUNTRIES - Australian Homicides before and after Port Arthur Masacre and Gun Ban BuybackFact: Homicides were falling before the Australian firearm ban, matching a global downward trend in most industrialized countries. However, non-firearm homicides are relatively stable in Australia.
Fact: Crime has been rising since enacting a sweeping ban on private gun ownership. In the first two years after Australian gun-owners were forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms, government statistics showed a dramatic increase in criminal activity. 33 In 2001-2002, homicides were up another 20%. 34
From the inception of firearm confiscation to March 27, 2000, the numbers are:
Firearm-related murders were up 19%
Armed robberies were up 69%
Home invasions were up 21%
The sad part is that in the 15 years before the national gun confiscation:
Firearm-related homicides dropped nearly 66%
Firearm-related deaths fell 50%
Fact: Gun crimes have been rising throughout Australia since guns were banned. In Sydney alone, robbery rates with guns rose 160% in 2001, more than in the previous year. 35
Fact: A ten year Australian study has concluded that firearm confiscation had no effect on crime rates. 36 A separate report also concluded that Australia’s 1996 gun control laws “found [no] evidence for an impact of the laws on the pre-existing decline in firearm homicides” 37 and yet another report from Australia for a similar time period indicates the same lack of decline in firearm homicides. 38
Fact: Despite having much stricter gun control than New Zealand (including a near ban on handguns) firearm homicides in both countries track one another over 25 years, indicating that gun control is not a control variable. 39
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