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Has Australia's most recent mass shooting been publicized in any other countries?

I saw someone do a post about the IS stabbings in France but I never heard anything about that so I thought I'd make a similar post.

Lancer 7 May 14
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I have not as of yet seen it. Do you have a link?

[bbc.co.uk]

@Lancer thanks. I find it interesting that US news isn't much bothering with it. But that is probably because it happens here every day

@AmelieMatisse
Fair enough. I just thought that with the gun control debate it might be interesting to see that even with all the restrictions, background checks, police checks, etc. a person can still commit a mass shooting if they decide they want to.

I am in favor of moderate gun control but I recognize that it won't always stop mass shootings.

@Lancer agreed. But Australia has less because of the laws. Unless guns are totally confiscated and banned, which I certainly do not espouse to, this is going to happen because if a person trulycwants to kill someone they will find a way. It is more so with guns because it takes down a lot of people rather quickly. I guess poisoning the water supply would do more harm much quicker but let's not open up that can of worms

@AmelieMatisse
Agreed. The laws are important and unless all guns are removed from society including illegal firearms, there will never be an end to gun crime.

As for poisoning the water supply. The "French" foreign legion used that as a tactic back in Vietnam. Also the quickest modern way would be to create a gas leak at an apartment building and fill it with diesel then light it up during the night. Block all the fire exits. It's doable but it's unbelievably wrong and inhumane.

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I think it made the news here in the US, but the mainstream media sources certainly have not been discussing it much, not that I'm surprised.

really??? I thought this would be a good example of how gun control with all the background checks, mental health screenings, high cost of ownership, registration, training, etc. failed. Gun control failed in this case.

How could this jut be swept under the rug like that? The leftits always use Australia as the ideal gun control example but fail to look deeper. Even when something like this, an obvious flaw in the gun control ideal, occurs they just turn a blind eye?
@Trajan61

@Lancer The liberals only care about disarming the people. Their ultimate goal is a socialist dictatorship.

@Trajan61
It's sad that many American, Australian, British, Canadian, etc. soldiers fought and died to stop the spread of communism, only to have their descendants beg for it 3 generations later.

I try not to get political in public but really stupid people asking for these policies, asking for speech to be regulated and for hate crimes to be criminal offenses. The world's gone mad.

This is not the world that I remember hearing about from my parents.

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South West Australia, 7 dead if i can remember. No suspects,suspected family shooting?

Coldo Level 8 May 14, 2018

yep. Most likely it was the grandfather since his guns were used. It was assumed to be a murder suicide.

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Made the news in the USA.

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I haven’t saw anything about it here in the US.

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[abcnews.go.com]

It was on the evening news, ABC, MSN and FOX

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