Mass shooting in Australia, gun control there is FAILING

[cnm]

But I will leave you to your demented ravings, where you ignore US firearm fatalities for some reason best known to yourself.

 

[2aguy]

No, they aren't

Australia's firearm homicide rate is 1/25th that of the US. In large measure because handguns are rigidly controlled and have been for decades.

Here...again.....

Gun city: Young, dumb and armed

The notion that a military-grade weapon could be in the hands of local criminals is shocking, but police have already seized at least five machine guns and assault rifles in the past 18 months. The AK-47 was not among them.

Only a fortnight ago, law enforcement authorities announced they were hunting another seven assault rifles recently smuggled into the country. Weapons from the shipment have been used in armed robberies and drive-by shootings.

These are just a handful of the thousands of illicit guns fuelling a wave of violent crime in the world’s most liveable city.

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Despite Australia’s strict gun control regime, criminals are now better armed than at any time since then-Prime Minister John Howard introduced a nationwide firearm buyback scheme in response to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.

Shootings have become almost a weekly occurrence, with more than 125 people, mostly young men, wounded in the past five year

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While the body count was higher during Melbourne’s ‘Underbelly War’ (1999-2005), more people have been seriously maimed in the recent spate of shootings and reprisals.

Crimes associated with firearm possession have also more than doubled, driven by the easy availability of handguns, semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and, increasingly, machine guns, that are smuggled into the country or stolen from licensed owners.

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These weapons have been used in dozens of recent drive-by shootings of homes and businesses, as well as targeted and random attacks in parks, shopping centres and roads.

“They’re young, dumb and armed,” said one former underworld associate, who survived a shooting attempt in the western suburbs several years ago.

“It used to be that if you were involved in something bad you might have to worry about [being shot]. Now people get shot over nothing - unprovoked.”

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Gun crime soars
In this series, Fairfax Media looks at Melbourne’s gun problem and the new breed of criminals behind the escalating violence.

The investigation has found:

• There have been at least 99 shootings in the past 20 months - more than one incident a week since January 2015
• Known criminals were caught with firearms 755 times last year, compared to 143 times in 2011
• The epicentre of the problem is a triangle between Coolaroo, Campbellfield and Glenroy in the north-west, with Cranbourne, Narre Warren and Dandenong in the south-east close behind
• Criminals are using gunshot wounds to the arms and legs as warnings to pay debts
• Assault rifles and handguns are being smuggled into Australia via shipments of electronics and metal parts

In response to the violence, it can be revealed the state government is planning to introduce new criminal offences for drive-by shootings, manufacturing of firearms with new technologies such as 3D printers, and more police powers to keep weapons out of the hands of known criminals.
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The second part of the series....
Gun city: Gunslingers of the North West


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'Thousands' of illegal guns tipped to be handed over in firearms amnesty

Asked roughly how many he expected to be handed in, Mr Keenan said: "Look I certainly think the number will be in the thousands."

The Australian Crime Commission estimated in 2012 there were at least 250,000 illegal guns in Australia. But a Senate report noted last year it was impossible to estimate how many illicit weapons are out there.


And despite Australia's strict border controls, the smuggling of high-powered military-style firearms is also a growing problem.

 

[2aguy]

I would gladly trade our murder rate for theirs.

Then you have to trade their criminals for our criminals.....

 

[rightwinger]

I wish we could go 22 years between mass shootings

If we ended democrat gun free zones we would.

So Australia bans guns and goes 22 years between mass shootings
We keep our guns and can’t go 22 weeks

Wrong, they didn't go 22 years between mass shootings, they have had over a dozen public shootings. The only reason they aren't mass public shootings is the shooter......who had a gun in a public space and was shooting people.....didn't kill 4 or more people. The actual standard according to obama was 3 people, and they didn't even kill that many in their public shootings....

Explain to us how these public shootings were kept from happening by the Australian gun control laws...had the shooters simply decided to shoot and kill more people, you couldn't keep lying about Australian gun control laws...

Which Australian gun control laws kept these shooters from walking into an Australian elementary school or high school? Or a mall...oh, some of them did do just those things, they just didn't manage to murder 4 people......

Timeline of major crimes in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• 16 January 1998 to 15 June 2009 – Melbourne gangland killings – A series of 35 murders of crime figures and their associates that began with the slaying of Alphonse Gangitano in his home, most likely by Jason Moran, the latest victim being Des Moran who was murdered in Ascot Vale on 15 June 2009.

• 
  
• 16 August 1998 – Victorian police officers Gary Silk and Rodney Miller were shot dead in an ambush by Bendali Debs and Jason Joseph Roberts in the Moorabbin Police murders.

• 3 August 1999 – La Trobe University shooting – Jonathan Brett Horrocks walked into the cafeteria in La Trobe university in Melbourne Victoria armed with a 38 caliber revolver handgun and opened fire killing Leon Capraro the boss and manager off the cafeteria and wounding a woman who was a student at the university.

• 13 March 2000 – Millewa State Forest Murders – Barbara and Stephen Brooks and Stacie Willoughby were found dead, all three having been shot execution style and left in the forest.[60][61]

• 26 May 2002 – A Vietnamese man walked into a Vietnamese wedding reception in Cabramatta Sydney, New South Wales armed with a handgun and opened fire wounding seven people.
• • 14 October 2002 – Dr. Margret Tobin, the South Australian head of Mental Health Services, was shot dead by Jean Eric Gassy as she walked out of a lift in her office building.
  • 21 October 2002 – Monash University shooting – Huan Xiang opened fire in a tutorial room, killing two and injuring five.
  • 25 October 2003 – Greenacre double murder – A man and a woman are shot dead in a house in the suburb of Greenacre, Sydney which was the result of a feud between two Middle Eastern crime families, 24-year-old Ziad Abdulrazak was shot 10 times in the chest and head and 22-year-old Mervat Hamka was shot twice in the neck while she slept in her bedroom, up to 100 shots were fired into the house from four men who were later arrested and convicted of the murders.
  • 26 July 2004 – Security guard Karen Brown shot dead armed robber William Aquilina in a Sydney carpark after he violently bashed her and stole the hotel's takings. Brown was charged with murder but acquitted on the grounds of self-defence.[66][67]

• 18 June 2007 – Melbourne CBD shooting – Christopher Wayne Hudson opened fire on three people, killing one and seriously wounding two others who intervened when Hudson was assaulting his girlfriend at a busy Melbourne intersection during the morning peak. He gave himself up to police in Wallan, Victoria on 20 June.[71]

• 10 April 2010 – Rajesh Osborne shot and killed his three children, 12 year-old Asia, 10-year-old Jarius and 7-year-old Grace before killing himself in Roxburgh, Victoria.[citation needed]

• 28 April 2011 – 2011 Hectorville siege – Donato Anthony Corbo shot dead Kobus and Annetjie Snyman and their son-in-law Luc Mombers and seriously wounded Mr Mombers' 14-year-old son Marcel and a police officer at Hectorville, South Australia before being arrested after an eight-hour stand off.
• 1

• 29 January 2012 – Giovanni Focarelli, son of Comancheros gang member Vincenzo Focarelli, was shot dead whilst Vincenzo survived the fourth attempt on his life.[79]

• 28 April 2012 – A man opened fire in a busy shopping mall in Robina on the Gold Coast shooting Bandidos bikie Jacques Teamo. A woman who was an innocent bystander was also injured from a shotgun blast to the leg. Neither of the victims died, but the incident highlighted the recent increase in gun crime across major Australian cities including Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide.[citation needed]

• 23 May 2012 – Christopher 'Badness' Binse, a career criminal well known to police, was arrested after a 44-hour siege at an East Keilor home in Melbourne's north west. During the siege, Binse fired several shots at police and refused to co-operate with negotiators; eventually tear gas had to be used to force him out of the house, at which point he refused to put down his weapon and was then sprayed with a volley of non-lethal bullets.[citation needed]

• 15 December 2012 – Aaron Carlino murdered drug dealer Stephen Cookson in his East Perth home by shooting him twice in the head and then he cut up and dismembered his body. He buried his arms legs and torso in the backyard of his house and he wrapped his head in a plastic bag and dumped it on Rottnest Island. The head of Cookson was later found washed up on Rottnest Island by an 11-year-old girl. Carlino was convicted of the murder and was sentenced to life in prison.[citation needed]
• 8 March 2013 – Queen Street mall siege – Lee Matthew Hiller entered the shopping mall on Queen Street Brisbane Queensland armed with a revolver and threatened shoppers and staff with the revolver, causing a 90-minute siege which ended when Hiller was shot and wounded in the arm by a police officer from the elite Specialist Emergency Response Team. Hiller was then later taken to hospital and was treated for his injury; he pleaded gulity to 20 charges and was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail with a non-parole period of two years and three months.[citation needed]
• 29 July 2013 – Two bikie gang associates, Vasko Boskovski and Bassil Hijazi were shot dead in two separate shooting incidents minutes apart in South West Sydney. The previous week Bassil Hijazi had survived a previous attempt against his life after he was shot inside his car.[citation needed]

• 9 September 2014 – Lockhart massacre – Geoff Hunt shot and killed his wife, Kim, his 10-year-old son Fletcher, and his daughters Mia, eight and Phoebe, six before killing himself on a farm in Lockhart in the Riverina district near Wagga Wagga New South Wales. The body of Geoff Hunt and a firearm are later found in a dam on the farm by police divers and a suicide note written by Geoff Hunt is also found inside the house on the farm.[citation needed]

• 22 October 2014 – Wedderburn shootings – Ian Jamieson shot dead Peter Lockhart, Peter's wife Mary and Mary's son Greg Holmes on two farm properties in Wedderburn, Victoria over a property dispute. Jamieson surrendered to police after a three-and-a-half hour siege.[citation needed]
• 7 November 2014 – Jordy Brook carjacked a Channel 7 news cameraman at gun point during a crime spree on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. He was later captured and arrested by police after luring police on a high speed chase and crashing the car.[citation needed]

• 12 November 2014 – Jamie Edwards and Joelene Joyce a married couple who were drug dealers are found shot dead in a car on a highway in the town of Moama, New South Wales.[86]

• 15 December 2014 – 2014 Sydney hostage crisis – Seventeen people were taken hostage in a cafe in Martin Place, Sydney by Man Haron Monis. The hostage crisis was resolved in the early hours of 16 December, sixteen hours after it commenced, when armed police stormed the premises. Monis and two hostages were killed in the course of the crisis.[87]

• 27 June 2015 – Hermidale triple murder – the bodies of three people, two men and a woman are found shot dead on a property in a rural farming community in the town of Hermidale west of Nyngan, the bodies of 28-year-old Jacob Cumberland his father 59-year-old Stephen Cumberland and a 36-year-old woman were found with gun shot wounds, the body of Jacob Cumberland was found on the drive way of the property, the body of the 36-year-old woman was found in the backyard of the property and the body of Stephen Cumberland was found in a burnt out caravan on the property. 61-year-old Allan O'Connor is later arrested and charged with the murders.

• 10 September 2015 – A 49-year-old woman is shot dead in a Mc Donald's restaurant in Gold Coast by her 57-year-old ex partner, who then turned the gun on himself afterwards and shot himself dead.
• 2 October 2015 - 2015 Parramatta shooting On 2 October 2015, Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old boy, shot and killed Curtis Cheng, an unarmed police civilian finance worker, outside the New South Wales Police Force headquarters in Parramatta, Australia. Jabar was subsequently shot and killed by special constables who were protecting the police station.

tl;dr


Australia has shown that gun confiscation works 22 years between major mass shootings would be a miracle in a second amendment country

 

[cnm]

hand guns are the easiest to get illegally since they are small and easy to conceal

How many times do you have to be told handguns are not easily available in Australia?

 

[2aguy]

But I will leave you to your demented ravings, where you ignore US firearm fatalities for some reason best known to yourself.

I don't ignore our gun murder rates....I have the answer as do other 2nd Amendment supporters...long prison sentences for gun criminals, instead of letting democrats release them over and over again, and getting rid of democrat gun free zones so that mass shooters will stop targeting them.

That is how you stop gun crime, not by taking guns away from people who don't use guns to commit crimes.

 

[2aguy]

hand guns are the easiest to get illegally since they are small and easy to conceal

How many times do you have to be told handguns are not easily available in Australia?

How many times do you have to be told that criminals get them easily?

Despite Australia’s strict gun control regime, criminals are now better armed than at any time since then-Prime Minister John Howard introduced a nationwide firearm buyback scheme in response to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.

 

[2aguy]

I wish we could go 22 years between mass shootings

If we ended democrat gun free zones we would.

So Australia bans guns and goes 22 years between mass shootings
We keep our guns and can’t go 22 weeks

Wrong, they didn't go 22 years between mass shootings, they have had over a dozen public shootings. The only reason they aren't mass public shootings is the shooter......who had a gun in a public space and was shooting people.....didn't kill 4 or more people. The actual standard according to obama was 3 people, and they didn't even kill that many in their public shootings....

Explain to us how these public shootings were kept from happening by the Australian gun control laws...had the shooters simply decided to shoot and kill more people, you couldn't keep lying about Australian gun control laws...

Which Australian gun control laws kept these shooters from walking into an Australian elementary school or high school? Or a mall...oh, some of them did do just those things, they just didn't manage to murder 4 people......

Timeline of major crimes in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• 16 January 1998 to 15 June 2009 – Melbourne gangland killings – A series of 35 murders of crime figures and their associates that began with the slaying of Alphonse Gangitano in his home, most likely by Jason Moran, the latest victim being Des Moran who was murdered in Ascot Vale on 15 June 2009.

• 
  
• 16 August 1998 – Victorian police officers Gary Silk and Rodney Miller were shot dead in an ambush by Bendali Debs and Jason Joseph Roberts in the Moorabbin Police murders.

• 3 August 1999 – La Trobe University shooting – Jonathan Brett Horrocks walked into the cafeteria in La Trobe university in Melbourne Victoria armed with a 38 caliber revolver handgun and opened fire killing Leon Capraro the boss and manager off the cafeteria and wounding a woman who was a student at the university.

• 13 March 2000 – Millewa State Forest Murders – Barbara and Stephen Brooks and Stacie Willoughby were found dead, all three having been shot execution style and left in the forest.[60][61]

• 26 May 2002 – A Vietnamese man walked into a Vietnamese wedding reception in Cabramatta Sydney, New South Wales armed with a handgun and opened fire wounding seven people.
• • 14 October 2002 – Dr. Margret Tobin, the South Australian head of Mental Health Services, was shot dead by Jean Eric Gassy as she walked out of a lift in her office building.
  • 21 October 2002 – Monash University shooting – Huan Xiang opened fire in a tutorial room, killing two and injuring five.
  • 25 October 2003 – Greenacre double murder – A man and a woman are shot dead in a house in the suburb of Greenacre, Sydney which was the result of a feud between two Middle Eastern crime families, 24-year-old Ziad Abdulrazak was shot 10 times in the chest and head and 22-year-old Mervat Hamka was shot twice in the neck while she slept in her bedroom, up to 100 shots were fired into the house from four men who were later arrested and convicted of the murders.
  • 26 July 2004 – Security guard Karen Brown shot dead armed robber William Aquilina in a Sydney carpark after he violently bashed her and stole the hotel's takings. Brown was charged with murder but acquitted on the grounds of self-defence.[66][67]

• 18 June 2007 – Melbourne CBD shooting – Christopher Wayne Hudson opened fire on three people, killing one and seriously wounding two others who intervened when Hudson was assaulting his girlfriend at a busy Melbourne intersection during the morning peak. He gave himself up to police in Wallan, Victoria on 20 June.[71]

• 10 April 2010 – Rajesh Osborne shot and killed his three children, 12 year-old Asia, 10-year-old Jarius and 7-year-old Grace before killing himself in Roxburgh, Victoria.[citation needed]

• 28 April 2011 – 2011 Hectorville siege – Donato Anthony Corbo shot dead Kobus and Annetjie Snyman and their son-in-law Luc Mombers and seriously wounded Mr Mombers' 14-year-old son Marcel and a police officer at Hectorville, South Australia before being arrested after an eight-hour stand off.
• 1

• 29 January 2012 – Giovanni Focarelli, son of Comancheros gang member Vincenzo Focarelli, was shot dead whilst Vincenzo survived the fourth attempt on his life.[79]

• 28 April 2012 – A man opened fire in a busy shopping mall in Robina on the Gold Coast shooting Bandidos bikie Jacques Teamo. A woman who was an innocent bystander was also injured from a shotgun blast to the leg. Neither of the victims died, but the incident highlighted the recent increase in gun crime across major Australian cities including Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide.[citation needed]

• 23 May 2012 – Christopher 'Badness' Binse, a career criminal well known to police, was arrested after a 44-hour siege at an East Keilor home in Melbourne's north west. During the siege, Binse fired several shots at police and refused to co-operate with negotiators; eventually tear gas had to be used to force him out of the house, at which point he refused to put down his weapon and was then sprayed with a volley of non-lethal bullets.[citation needed]

• 15 December 2012 – Aaron Carlino murdered drug dealer Stephen Cookson in his East Perth home by shooting him twice in the head and then he cut up and dismembered his body. He buried his arms legs and torso in the backyard of his house and he wrapped his head in a plastic bag and dumped it on Rottnest Island. The head of Cookson was later found washed up on Rottnest Island by an 11-year-old girl. Carlino was convicted of the murder and was sentenced to life in prison.[citation needed]
• 8 March 2013 – Queen Street mall siege – Lee Matthew Hiller entered the shopping mall on Queen Street Brisbane Queensland armed with a revolver and threatened shoppers and staff with the revolver, causing a 90-minute siege which ended when Hiller was shot and wounded in the arm by a police officer from the elite Specialist Emergency Response Team. Hiller was then later taken to hospital and was treated for his injury; he pleaded gulity to 20 charges and was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail with a non-parole period of two years and three months.[citation needed]
• 29 July 2013 – Two bikie gang associates, Vasko Boskovski and Bassil Hijazi were shot dead in two separate shooting incidents minutes apart in South West Sydney. The previous week Bassil Hijazi had survived a previous attempt against his life after he was shot inside his car.[citation needed]

• 9 September 2014 – Lockhart massacre – Geoff Hunt shot and killed his wife, Kim, his 10-year-old son Fletcher, and his daughters Mia, eight and Phoebe, six before killing himself on a farm in Lockhart in the Riverina district near Wagga Wagga New South Wales. The body of Geoff Hunt and a firearm are later found in a dam on the farm by police divers and a suicide note written by Geoff Hunt is also found inside the house on the farm.[citation needed]

• 22 October 2014 – Wedderburn shootings – Ian Jamieson shot dead Peter Lockhart, Peter's wife Mary and Mary's son Greg Holmes on two farm properties in Wedderburn, Victoria over a property dispute. Jamieson surrendered to police after a three-and-a-half hour siege.[citation needed]
• 7 November 2014 – Jordy Brook carjacked a Channel 7 news cameraman at gun point during a crime spree on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. He was later captured and arrested by police after luring police on a high speed chase and crashing the car.[citation needed]

• 12 November 2014 – Jamie Edwards and Joelene Joyce a married couple who were drug dealers are found shot dead in a car on a highway in the town of Moama, New South Wales.[86]

• 15 December 2014 – 2014 Sydney hostage crisis – Seventeen people were taken hostage in a cafe in Martin Place, Sydney by Man Haron Monis. The hostage crisis was resolved in the early hours of 16 December, sixteen hours after it commenced, when armed police stormed the premises. Monis and two hostages were killed in the course of the crisis.[87]

• 27 June 2015 – Hermidale triple murder – the bodies of three people, two men and a woman are found shot dead on a property in a rural farming community in the town of Hermidale west of Nyngan, the bodies of 28-year-old Jacob Cumberland his father 59-year-old Stephen Cumberland and a 36-year-old woman were found with gun shot wounds, the body of Jacob Cumberland was found on the drive way of the property, the body of the 36-year-old woman was found in the backyard of the property and the body of Stephen Cumberland was found in a burnt out caravan on the property. 61-year-old Allan O'Connor is later arrested and charged with the murders.

• 10 September 2015 – A 49-year-old woman is shot dead in a Mc Donald's restaurant in Gold Coast by her 57-year-old ex partner, who then turned the gun on himself afterwards and shot himself dead.
• 2 October 2015 - 2015 Parramatta shooting On 2 October 2015, Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old boy, shot and killed Curtis Cheng, an unarmed police civilian finance worker, outside the New South Wales Police Force headquarters in Parramatta, Australia. Jabar was subsequently shot and killed by special constables who were protecting the police station.

tl;dr


Australia has shown that gun confiscation works 22 years between major mass shootings would be a miracle in a second amendment country

Yes....you read that list of public shootings after they banned and confiscated guns, then you lie about their gun control laws stopping mass public shootings......you really are a left winger, the truth just does not find a home in your brain.

 

[2aguy]

hand guns are the easiest to get illegally since they are small and easy to conceal

How many times do you have to be told handguns are not easily available in Australia?

From Australian journalists....

Crimes associated with firearm possession have also more than doubled, driven by the easy availability of handguns, semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and, increasingly, machine guns, that are smuggled into the country or stolen from licensed owners.

 

[Rosy]

You can ban assault weapons but an idiot killing people and burning their college is still an idiot

‘It’s just horrifying’: Seven killed in Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in 22 years

An Australian community is reeling from the deadliest mass shooting the country has seen in more than 20 years, after seven people, including four children, were discovered dead on a rural property near Margaret River.

Authorities in Western Australia responded early Friday morning to a home in Osmington, not far from Perth, where the four children and three adults were found dead from gunshot wounds, according to local news reports.

The shooting has rattled Australia, where lawmakers passed some of the world's most restrictive gun-control laws after a 1996 massacre in Tasmania.

“ 'Shocking' is about the only word,” resident Felicity Haynes told 9 News Australia. “I just feel sick to the stomach. That couldn't happen here.”

[‘AMERICAN NIGHTMARE’: Australians react to fatal police shooting in ‘very risky’ United States]

Western Australia police commissioner Chris Dawson said at a news conference that officers responded to the scene about 5:15 a.m. and discovered the seven bodies. Two adults were outside, and five other victims were inside the home in Osmington, a small town nestled in Western Australia's southwest corner.

Now for the rest of the Story. What was the Weapon and who or what stopped the killing. You didn't finish the story.

The story was breaking, you can read on your own I suppose

 

[2aguy]

hand guns are the easiest to get illegally since they are small and easy to conceal

How many times do you have to be told handguns are not easily available in Australia?

Here...notice the names of the gun smugglers.......and they aren't going away...

Busted: The gun-running syndicate that shocked Australian law enforcement

 

[rightwinger]

I wish we could go 22 years between mass shootings

If we ended democrat gun free zones we would.

So Australia bans guns and goes 22 years between mass shootings
We keep our guns and can’t go 22 weeks

Wrong, they didn't go 22 years between mass shootings, they have had over a dozen public shootings. The only reason they aren't mass public shootings is the shooter......who had a gun in a public space and was shooting people.....didn't kill 4 or more people. The actual standard according to obama was 3 people, and they didn't even kill that many in their public shootings....

Explain to us how these public shootings were kept from happening by the Australian gun control laws...had the shooters simply decided to shoot and kill more people, you couldn't keep lying about Australian gun control laws...

Which Australian gun control laws kept these shooters from walking into an Australian elementary school or high school? Or a mall...oh, some of them did do just those things, they just didn't manage to murder 4 people......

Timeline of major crimes in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• 16 January 1998 to 15 June 2009 – Melbourne gangland killings – A series of 35 murders of crime figures and their associates that began with the slaying of Alphonse Gangitano in his home, most likely by Jason Moran, the latest victim being Des Moran who was murdered in Ascot Vale on 15 June 2009.

• 
  
• 16 August 1998 – Victorian police officers Gary Silk and Rodney Miller were shot dead in an ambush by Bendali Debs and Jason Joseph Roberts in the Moorabbin Police murders.

• 3 August 1999 – La Trobe University shooting – Jonathan Brett Horrocks walked into the cafeteria in La Trobe university in Melbourne Victoria armed with a 38 caliber revolver handgun and opened fire killing Leon Capraro the boss and manager off the cafeteria and wounding a woman who was a student at the university.

• 13 March 2000 – Millewa State Forest Murders – Barbara and Stephen Brooks and Stacie Willoughby were found dead, all three having been shot execution style and left in the forest.[60][61]

• 26 May 2002 – A Vietnamese man walked into a Vietnamese wedding reception in Cabramatta Sydney, New South Wales armed with a handgun and opened fire wounding seven people.
• • 14 October 2002 – Dr. Margret Tobin, the South Australian head of Mental Health Services, was shot dead by Jean Eric Gassy as she walked out of a lift in her office building.
  • 21 October 2002 – Monash University shooting – Huan Xiang opened fire in a tutorial room, killing two and injuring five.
  • 25 October 2003 – Greenacre double murder – A man and a woman are shot dead in a house in the suburb of Greenacre, Sydney which was the result of a feud between two Middle Eastern crime families, 24-year-old Ziad Abdulrazak was shot 10 times in the chest and head and 22-year-old Mervat Hamka was shot twice in the neck while she slept in her bedroom, up to 100 shots were fired into the house from four men who were later arrested and convicted of the murders.
  • 26 July 2004 – Security guard Karen Brown shot dead armed robber William Aquilina in a Sydney carpark after he violently bashed her and stole the hotel's takings. Brown was charged with murder but acquitted on the grounds of self-defence.[66][67]

• 18 June 2007 – Melbourne CBD shooting – Christopher Wayne Hudson opened fire on three people, killing one and seriously wounding two others who intervened when Hudson was assaulting his girlfriend at a busy Melbourne intersection during the morning peak. He gave himself up to police in Wallan, Victoria on 20 June.[71]

• 10 April 2010 – Rajesh Osborne shot and killed his three children, 12 year-old Asia, 10-year-old Jarius and 7-year-old Grace before killing himself in Roxburgh, Victoria.[citation needed]

• 28 April 2011 – 2011 Hectorville siege – Donato Anthony Corbo shot dead Kobus and Annetjie Snyman and their son-in-law Luc Mombers and seriously wounded Mr Mombers' 14-year-old son Marcel and a police officer at Hectorville, South Australia before being arrested after an eight-hour stand off.
• 1

• 29 January 2012 – Giovanni Focarelli, son of Comancheros gang member Vincenzo Focarelli, was shot dead whilst Vincenzo survived the fourth attempt on his life.[79]

• 28 April 2012 – A man opened fire in a busy shopping mall in Robina on the Gold Coast shooting Bandidos bikie Jacques Teamo. A woman who was an innocent bystander was also injured from a shotgun blast to the leg. Neither of the victims died, but the incident highlighted the recent increase in gun crime across major Australian cities including Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide.[citation needed]

• 23 May 2012 – Christopher 'Badness' Binse, a career criminal well known to police, was arrested after a 44-hour siege at an East Keilor home in Melbourne's north west. During the siege, Binse fired several shots at police and refused to co-operate with negotiators; eventually tear gas had to be used to force him out of the house, at which point he refused to put down his weapon and was then sprayed with a volley of non-lethal bullets.[citation needed]

• 15 December 2012 – Aaron Carlino murdered drug dealer Stephen Cookson in his East Perth home by shooting him twice in the head and then he cut up and dismembered his body. He buried his arms legs and torso in the backyard of his house and he wrapped his head in a plastic bag and dumped it on Rottnest Island. The head of Cookson was later found washed up on Rottnest Island by an 11-year-old girl. Carlino was convicted of the murder and was sentenced to life in prison.[citation needed]
• 8 March 2013 – Queen Street mall siege – Lee Matthew Hiller entered the shopping mall on Queen Street Brisbane Queensland armed with a revolver and threatened shoppers and staff with the revolver, causing a 90-minute siege which ended when Hiller was shot and wounded in the arm by a police officer from the elite Specialist Emergency Response Team. Hiller was then later taken to hospital and was treated for his injury; he pleaded gulity to 20 charges and was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail with a non-parole period of two years and three months.[citation needed]
• 29 July 2013 – Two bikie gang associates, Vasko Boskovski and Bassil Hijazi were shot dead in two separate shooting incidents minutes apart in South West Sydney. The previous week Bassil Hijazi had survived a previous attempt against his life after he was shot inside his car.[citation needed]

• 9 September 2014 – Lockhart massacre – Geoff Hunt shot and killed his wife, Kim, his 10-year-old son Fletcher, and his daughters Mia, eight and Phoebe, six before killing himself on a farm in Lockhart in the Riverina district near Wagga Wagga New South Wales. The body of Geoff Hunt and a firearm are later found in a dam on the farm by police divers and a suicide note written by Geoff Hunt is also found inside the house on the farm.[citation needed]

• 22 October 2014 – Wedderburn shootings – Ian Jamieson shot dead Peter Lockhart, Peter's wife Mary and Mary's son Greg Holmes on two farm properties in Wedderburn, Victoria over a property dispute. Jamieson surrendered to police after a three-and-a-half hour siege.[citation needed]
• 7 November 2014 – Jordy Brook carjacked a Channel 7 news cameraman at gun point during a crime spree on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. He was later captured and arrested by police after luring police on a high speed chase and crashing the car.[citation needed]

• 12 November 2014 – Jamie Edwards and Joelene Joyce a married couple who were drug dealers are found shot dead in a car on a highway in the town of Moama, New South Wales.[86]

• 15 December 2014 – 2014 Sydney hostage crisis – Seventeen people were taken hostage in a cafe in Martin Place, Sydney by Man Haron Monis. The hostage crisis was resolved in the early hours of 16 December, sixteen hours after it commenced, when armed police stormed the premises. Monis and two hostages were killed in the course of the crisis.[87]

• 27 June 2015 – Hermidale triple murder – the bodies of three people, two men and a woman are found shot dead on a property in a rural farming community in the town of Hermidale west of Nyngan, the bodies of 28-year-old Jacob Cumberland his father 59-year-old Stephen Cumberland and a 36-year-old woman were found with gun shot wounds, the body of Jacob Cumberland was found on the drive way of the property, the body of the 36-year-old woman was found in the backyard of the property and the body of Stephen Cumberland was found in a burnt out caravan on the property. 61-year-old Allan O'Connor is later arrested and charged with the murders.

• 10 September 2015 – A 49-year-old woman is shot dead in a Mc Donald's restaurant in Gold Coast by her 57-year-old ex partner, who then turned the gun on himself afterwards and shot himself dead.
• 2 October 2015 - 2015 Parramatta shooting On 2 October 2015, Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, a 15-year-old boy, shot and killed Curtis Cheng, an unarmed police civilian finance worker, outside the New South Wales Police Force headquarters in Parramatta, Australia. Jabar was subsequently shot and killed by special constables who were protecting the police station.

tl;dr


Australia has shown that gun confiscation works 22 years between major mass shootings would be a miracle in a second amendment country

Yes....you read that list of public shootings after they banned and confiscated guns, then you lie about their gun control laws stopping mass public shootings......you really are a left winger, the truth just does not find a home in your brain.

Your list would not even make the papers in our gun loving country
Not enough blood

 

[Rosy]

You can ban assault weapons but an idiot killing people and burning their college is still an idiot

‘It’s just horrifying’: Seven killed in Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in 22 years

An Australian community is reeling from the deadliest mass shooting the country has seen in more than 20 years, after seven people, including four children, were discovered dead on a rural property near Margaret River.

Authorities in Western Australia responded early Friday morning to a home in Osmington, not far from Perth, where the four children and three adults were found dead from gunshot wounds, according to local news reports.

The shooting has rattled Australia, where lawmakers passed some of the world's most restrictive gun-control laws after a 1996 massacre in Tasmania.

“ 'Shocking' is about the only word,” resident Felicity Haynes told 9 News Australia. “I just feel sick to the stomach. That couldn't happen here.”

[‘AMERICAN NIGHTMARE’: Australians react to fatal police shooting in ‘very risky’ United States]

Western Australia police commissioner Chris Dawson said at a news conference that officers responded to the scene about 5:15 a.m. and discovered the seven bodies. Two adults were outside, and five other victims were inside the home in Osmington, a small town nestled in Western Australia's southwest corner.

Now for the rest of the Story. What was the Weapon and who or what stopped the killing. You didn't finish the story.

Murder/suicide. The shooter stopped himself. No mention of what kinda gun.

Four children, three adults found shot dead in Margaret River murder-suicide

Google is your friend, you coulda figured this out for yourself.

Australia has a point as the type of gun does not matter, dead is dead

 

[Daryl Hunt]

Mass shooting in Australia, gun control there is FAILING

One can tell that because the US has a firearm homicide rate 25 times greater than in Australia.

According to you shit stains gun control means zero gun violence, Fortunately anti-gun nutters have no credibility...

Straw man alert! Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.

You idjits need to memorise some new talking points.

Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.


Except it isn't working that way in Britain or Australia, doofus. In both countries gun crime is going up, not down, meanwhile, in the United States....gun crime, gun murder and violent crime is going down, while more Americans are owning and actually carrying guns.....

Your entire point is wrong......gun control in Britain? More gun crime. Gun control in Australia? More gun crime.

More people carrying guns in the U.S.? Gun murder down, gun crime down, violent crime down.

In your mind only. MOST people in the US do NOT carry guns. You may dream about it but most don't carry guns at all. In fact, most homes don't even have guns at all. The bulk of the guns are owned by only a small percentage of the people who own multiple guns. You use the total and spread it out over the entire population when it's only a small percentage that actually owns the guns.

Australia's gun murder just went up. 7 murders in 22 years and that's it. Rather than ding them for those 7 deaths, how about taking your hat off to them for the 22 years where there were Zero Gun Murders. And then wish them another 22 years of no gun murders.

 

[Crepitus]

Mass shooting in Australia, gun control there is FAILING

One can tell that because the US has a firearm homicide rate 25 times greater than in Australia.

According to you shit stains gun control means zero gun violence, Fortunately anti-gun nutters have no credibility...

Straw man alert! Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.

You idjits need to memorise some new talking points.

Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.


Except it isn't working that way in Britain or Australia, doofus. In both countries gun crime is going up, not down, meanwhile, in the United States....gun crime, gun murder and violent crime is going down, while more Americans are owning and actually carrying guns.....

Your entire point is wrong......gun control in Britain? More gun crime. Gun control in Australia? More gun crime.

More people carrying guns in the U.S.? Gun murder down, gun crime down, violent crime down.

Dude, wake up. 7 people is the worst shooting Australia has had in 22 years, it isn't even the worst one we've had this month!

 

[rightwinger]

Mass shooting in Australia, gun control there is FAILING

One can tell that because the US has a firearm homicide rate 25 times greater than in Australia.

According to you shit stains gun control means zero gun violence, Fortunately anti-gun nutters have no credibility...

Straw man alert! Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.

You idjits need to memorise some new talking points.

Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.


Except it isn't working that way in Britain or Australia, doofus. In both countries gun crime is going up, not down, meanwhile, in the United States....gun crime, gun murder and violent crime is going down, while more Americans are owning and actually carrying guns.....

Your entire point is wrong......gun control in Britain? More gun crime. Gun control in Australia? More gun crime.

More people carrying guns in the U.S.? Gun murder down, gun crime down, violent crime down.

Dude, wake up. 7 people is the worst shooting Australia has had in 22 years, it isn't even the worst one we've had this month!

 

[2aguy]

Mass shooting in Australia, gun control there is FAILING

One can tell that because the US has a firearm homicide rate 25 times greater than in Australia.

According to you shit stains gun control means zero gun violence, Fortunately anti-gun nutters have no credibility...

Straw man alert! Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.

You idjits need to memorise some new talking points.

Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.


Except it isn't working that way in Britain or Australia, doofus. In both countries gun crime is going up, not down, meanwhile, in the United States....gun crime, gun murder and violent crime is going down, while more Americans are owning and actually carrying guns.....

Your entire point is wrong......gun control in Britain? More gun crime. Gun control in Australia? More gun crime.

More people carrying guns in the U.S.? Gun murder down, gun crime down, violent crime down.

Dude, wake up. 7 people is the worst shooting Australia has had in 22 years, it isn't even the worst one we've had this month!

They banned and confiscated guns....they are constantly used to say that their gun control laws work, and that is a lie. They have had about 15 public shootings since the gun ban.....and their gun crime rate is going up, while ours is going down.

The truth is the truth.

 

[2aguy]

Mass shooting in Australia, gun control there is FAILING

One can tell that because the US has a firearm homicide rate 25 times greater than in Australia.

According to you shit stains gun control means zero gun violence, Fortunately anti-gun nutters have no credibility...

Straw man alert! Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.

You idjits need to memorise some new talking points.

Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.


Except it isn't working that way in Britain or Australia, doofus. In both countries gun crime is going up, not down, meanwhile, in the United States....gun crime, gun murder and violent crime is going down, while more Americans are owning and actually carrying guns.....

Your entire point is wrong......gun control in Britain? More gun crime. Gun control in Australia? More gun crime.

More people carrying guns in the U.S.? Gun murder down, gun crime down, violent crime down.

In your mind only. MOST people in the US do NOT carry guns. You may dream about it but most don't carry guns at all. In fact, most homes don't even have guns at all. The bulk of the guns are owned by only a small percentage of the people who own multiple guns. You use the total and spread it out over the entire population when it's only a small percentage that actually owns the guns.

Australia's gun murder just went up. 7 murders in 22 years and that's it. Rather than ding them for those 7 deaths, how about taking your hat off to them for the 22 years where there were Zero Gun Murders. And then wish them another 22 years of no gun murders.

they haven't had 0 gun murders and they have had about 15 public shootings since they banned and confiscated guns....and their gun crime rate is going up, not down....

 

[Crepitus]

One can tell that because the US has a firearm homicide rate 25 times greater than in Australia.

According to you shit stains gun control means zero gun violence, Fortunately anti-gun nutters have no credibility...

Straw man alert! Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.

You idjits need to memorise some new talking points.

Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.


Except it isn't working that way in Britain or Australia, doofus. In both countries gun crime is going up, not down, meanwhile, in the United States....gun crime, gun murder and violent crime is going down, while more Americans are owning and actually carrying guns.....

Your entire point is wrong......gun control in Britain? More gun crime. Gun control in Australia? More gun crime.

More people carrying guns in the U.S.? Gun murder down, gun crime down, violent crime down.

Dude, wake up. 7 people is the worst shooting Australia has had in 22 years, it isn't even the worst one we've had this month!

They banned and confiscated guns....they are constantly used to say that their gun control laws work, and that is a lie. They have had about 15 public shootings since the gun ban.....and their gun crime rate is going up, while ours is going down.

The truth is the truth.

Lol, 15 shootings? In 22 years? We have more than that every day!

Could you be a little more dishonest?

 

[Crepitus]

One can tell that because the US has a firearm homicide rate 25 times greater than in Australia.

According to you shit stains gun control means zero gun violence, Fortunately anti-gun nutters have no credibility...

Straw man alert! Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.

You idjits need to memorise some new talking points.

Everybody but rwnj NRA cultists knows that gun control doesn't mean 0 shootings, it means less shootings.


Except it isn't working that way in Britain or Australia, doofus. In both countries gun crime is going up, not down, meanwhile, in the United States....gun crime, gun murder and violent crime is going down, while more Americans are owning and actually carrying guns.....

Your entire point is wrong......gun control in Britain? More gun crime. Gun control in Australia? More gun crime.

More people carrying guns in the U.S.? Gun murder down, gun crime down, violent crime down.

In your mind only. MOST people in the US do NOT carry guns. You may dream about it but most don't carry guns at all. In fact, most homes don't even have guns at all. The bulk of the guns are owned by only a small percentage of the people who own multiple guns. You use the total and spread it out over the entire population when it's only a small percentage that actually owns the guns.

Australia's gun murder just went up. 7 murders in 22 years and that's it. Rather than ding them for those 7 deaths, how about taking your hat off to them for the 22 years where there were Zero Gun Murders. And then wish them another 22 years of no gun murders.

they haven't had 0 gun murders and they have had about 15 public shootings since they banned and confiscated guns....and their gun crime rate is going up, not down....

Ah, the "liberals believe it will stop all shootings" straw man. I believe we've already discussed this.