Mother of 5 shot...on life support...in Australia, where guns are banned...

[2aguy]

Yep......gun crime is on the rise in Australia, decades after they banned and confiscated guns....shooting seems to run in this family though...her son shot a police officer....in the face...

Gunman ‘better pray they don’t get caught’

THE husband of a mum-of-five shot in the chest last night has issued an emotional warning to the gunman responsible as she fights for life in hospital.

Steve Phillips said Leonie Stuart was still on life support after being shot in the chest at the family’s Glenroy home.

“I haven’t slept yet, this wears you out,” he told the Herald Sun as he returned to the Hubert St home this afternoon.

“Whoever did this better pray they don’t get caught because they’ll be history.”

Ms Stuart’s son Rodney Phillips, 25, is awaiting sentence for shooting a police officer in the face and trying to firebomb the family of underworld figure Carl Williams in 2015.

 

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Does anyone thinks or has as a goal that the quantity of gun-related deaths fall to zero? The fact that one can find one individual in Australia who shot another individual is indicative of the implausibility of achieving the "zero gun deaths" outcome, despite the fact that achieving such an outcome is highly desirable.

In Australia, there is clear correlation between gun law reforms and the decline of gun deaths. AFAIK, causation has yet to be established.

After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, "rapid-fire long guns" were banned in Australia; a year later there was a mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms. Australia has had no fatal mass shootings since 1996. Since major gun law reforms were introduced in Australia, mass shootings have not only stopped, but there has also been an accelerating reduction in rates of firearm-related homicide and suicides, a landmark study has found.

Homicides involving firearms as a percentage of total homicides, 1915-2003

It has been two decades since rapid-fire long guns were banned in Australia, including those already in private ownership, and 19 years since the mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms by government at market price was introduced. A handgun buyback program was later introduced, in 2003.

Researchers from the University of Sydney and Macquarie University analysed data on intentional suicide and homicide deaths caused by firearms from the National Injury Surveillance Unit, and intentional firearm death rates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For the period after the 1996 reforms, rates of total homicides and suicides from all causes were also examined to consider whether people may have substituted guns for alternative means.

From 1979 to 1996, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths was rising at 2.1% per year. Since then, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths has been declining by 1.4%, with the researchers concluding there was no evidence of murderers moving to other methods, and that the same was true for suicide.

The average decline in total firearm deaths accelerated significantly, from a 3% decline annually before the reforms to a 5% decline afterwards, the study found. In the 18 years to 1996, Australia experienced 13 fatal mass shootings in which 104 victims were killed and at least another 52 were wounded. There have been no fatal mass shootings since that time, with the study defining a mass shooting as having at least five victims.

The 1996 reforms introduced in Australia came after a mass shooting known as the Port Arthur massacre in which Martin Bryant used two semi-automatic rifles to kill 35 people and wound 23 others in Port Arthur, Tasmania. The reforms had the support of all major political parties.​

As citing a single individual who got shot in Australia...well, I don't know what the point of that is.

 

[2aguy]

Does anyone thinks or has as a goal that the quantity of gun-related deaths fall to zero? The fact that one can find one individual in Australia who shot another individual is indicative of the implausibility of achieving the "zero gun deaths" outcome, despite the fact that achieving such an outcome is highly desirable.

In Australia, there is clear correlation between gun law reforms and the decline of gun deaths. AFAIK, causation has yet to be established.

After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, "rapid-fire long guns" were banned in Australia; a year later there was a mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms. Australia has had no fatal mass shootings since 1996. Since major gun law reforms were introduced in Australia, mass shootings have not only stopped, but there has also been an accelerating reduction in rates of firearm-related homicide and suicides, a landmark study has found.

Homicides involving firearms as a percentage of total homicides, 1915-2003

It has been two decades since rapid-fire long guns were banned in Australia, including those already in private ownership, and 19 years since the mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms by government at market price was introduced. A handgun buyback program was later introduced, in 2003.

Researchers from the University of Sydney and Macquarie University analysed data on intentional suicide and homicide deaths caused by firearms from the National Injury Surveillance Unit, and intentional firearm death rates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For the period after the 1996 reforms, rates of total homicides and suicides from all causes were also examined to consider whether people may have substituted guns for alternative means.

From 1979 to 1996, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths was rising at 2.1% per year. Since then, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths has been declining by 1.4%, with the researchers concluding there was no evidence of murderers moving to other methods, and that the same was true for suicide.

The average decline in total firearm deaths accelerated significantly, from a 3% decline annually before the reforms to a 5% decline afterwards, the study found. In the 18 years to 1996, Australia experienced 13 fatal mass shootings in which 104 victims were killed and at least another 52 were wounded. There have been no fatal mass shootings since that time, with the study defining a mass shooting as having at least five victims.

The 1996 reforms introduced in Australia came after a mass shooting known as the Port Arthur massacre in which Martin Bryant used two semi-automatic rifles to kill 35 people and wound 23 others in Port Arthur, Tasmania. The reforms had the support of all major political parties.​

As citing a single individual who got shot in Australia...well, I don't know what the point of that is.

Actually, you are wrong.....gun crime is on the rise in Australia...as the new name of Melbourne shows...it is now nicknamed the City of the Gun........and the mass shooting myth of Australian gun control...the only reason they haven't had more mass shootings...their people have not committed them..since shooters have tried to kill 4 people or more and just haven't reached that number......

Here are shootings that have happened in Australia......please tell us which Australian gun law kept these shootings from being mass public shootings....then explain how the decision of the shooter not to shoot more people wasn't the actual reason they weren't mass public shootings....and these are all post gun confiscation in Australia...

Had the shooters in these incidents simply gone to a mall, a school, or other public place...which Australian gun control law would have kept them from being mass public shootings...since they had guns...and they shot people ....they just didn't shoot enough people, or kill enough people ...but they did go to a public place and shoot people...making you point on mass public shootings wrong....

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

25 January 1996 – Hillcrest murders – Peter May shot and killed his three children, his estranged wife and her parents in the Brisbane suburb of Hillcrest before killing himself.[54]

• 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.

• 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.

• • 21 October 2002 – Monash University shooting – Huan Xiang opened fire in a tutorial room, killing two and injuring five.

• 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]

• 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.

• 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]

• 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]
• 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]

• 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

• 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.

Here is a neater list.....

Timeline of major crimes in Australia - Wikipedia

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

21st century[edit]
2000s[edit]

• 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.[62][63]
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• 16 July 2001 – Peter James Knight, an anti-abortion activist, walked into an abortion clinic in East Melbourne armed with a rifle. Knight shot dead security guard Stephen Gordon Rogers and was later overpowered by staff in the abortion clinic. After his arrest, Knight was charged and convicted of murder. He was sentenced to life in prison.
• 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. Twenty-four-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 by four men who were later arrested and convicted of the murders.
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• 18 February 2006 – Cardross Hit and Run – Thomas Graham Towle crashed his car at high speed into a group of 13 teenagers, killing six and injuring seven near the town ofCardross, Victoria.[73]
• 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.[75]

 

[2aguy]

Does anyone thinks or has as a goal that the quantity of gun-related deaths fall to zero? The fact that one can find one individual in Australia who shot another individual is indicative of the implausibility of achieving the "zero gun deaths" outcome, despite the fact that achieving such an outcome is highly desirable.

In Australia, there is clear correlation between gun law reforms and the decline of gun deaths. AFAIK, causation has yet to be established.

After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, "rapid-fire long guns" were banned in Australia; a year later there was a mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms. Australia has had no fatal mass shootings since 1996. Since major gun law reforms were introduced in Australia, mass shootings have not only stopped, but there has also been an accelerating reduction in rates of firearm-related homicide and suicides, a landmark study has found.

Homicides involving firearms as a percentage of total homicides, 1915-2003

It has been two decades since rapid-fire long guns were banned in Australia, including those already in private ownership, and 19 years since the mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms by government at market price was introduced. A handgun buyback program was later introduced, in 2003.

Researchers from the University of Sydney and Macquarie University analysed data on intentional suicide and homicide deaths caused by firearms from the National Injury Surveillance Unit, and intentional firearm death rates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For the period after the 1996 reforms, rates of total homicides and suicides from all causes were also examined to consider whether people may have substituted guns for alternative means.

From 1979 to 1996, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths was rising at 2.1% per year. Since then, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths has been declining by 1.4%, with the researchers concluding there was no evidence of murderers moving to other methods, and that the same was true for suicide.

The average decline in total firearm deaths accelerated significantly, from a 3% decline annually before the reforms to a 5% decline afterwards, the study found. In the 18 years to 1996, Australia experienced 13 fatal mass shootings in which 104 victims were killed and at least another 52 were wounded. There have been no fatal mass shootings since that time, with the study defining a mass shooting as having at least five victims.

The 1996 reforms introduced in Australia came after a mass shooting known as the Port Arthur massacre in which Martin Bryant used two semi-automatic rifles to kill 35 people and wound 23 others in Port Arthur, Tasmania. The reforms had the support of all major political parties.​

As citing a single individual who got shot in Australia...well, I don't know what the point of that is.

And here we have a 3 part story from Australia....which details the increasing level of gun crime in Australia...see...a short reprieve in gun crime in Australia had nothing to do with their gun laws....since gun crime is now on the rise in Australia....it had everything to do with the culture of their criminals......they are now importing immigrants who are using guns....to move drugs and further their criminal enterprises...and more gun crime is happening because of this...and their gun laws are not stopping it...

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.

But....military weapons?

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

 

[2aguy]

Does anyone thinks or has as a goal that the quantity of gun-related deaths fall to zero? The fact that one can find one individual in Australia who shot another individual is indicative of the implausibility of achieving the "zero gun deaths" outcome, despite the fact that achieving such an outcome is highly desirable.

In Australia, there is clear correlation between gun law reforms and the decline of gun deaths. AFAIK, causation has yet to be established.

After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, "rapid-fire long guns" were banned in Australia; a year later there was a mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms. Australia has had no fatal mass shootings since 1996. Since major gun law reforms were introduced in Australia, mass shootings have not only stopped, but there has also been an accelerating reduction in rates of firearm-related homicide and suicides, a landmark study has found.

Homicides involving firearms as a percentage of total homicides, 1915-2003

It has been two decades since rapid-fire long guns were banned in Australia, including those already in private ownership, and 19 years since the mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms by government at market price was introduced. A handgun buyback program was later introduced, in 2003.

Researchers from the University of Sydney and Macquarie University analysed data on intentional suicide and homicide deaths caused by firearms from the National Injury Surveillance Unit, and intentional firearm death rates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For the period after the 1996 reforms, rates of total homicides and suicides from all causes were also examined to consider whether people may have substituted guns for alternative means.

From 1979 to 1996, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths was rising at 2.1% per year. Since then, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths has been declining by 1.4%, with the researchers concluding there was no evidence of murderers moving to other methods, and that the same was true for suicide.

The average decline in total firearm deaths accelerated significantly, from a 3% decline annually before the reforms to a 5% decline afterwards, the study found. In the 18 years to 1996, Australia experienced 13 fatal mass shootings in which 104 victims were killed and at least another 52 were wounded. There have been no fatal mass shootings since that time, with the study defining a mass shooting as having at least five victims.

The 1996 reforms introduced in Australia came after a mass shooting known as the Port Arthur massacre in which Martin Bryant used two semi-automatic rifles to kill 35 people and wound 23 others in Port Arthur, Tasmania. The reforms had the support of all major political parties.​

As citing a single individual who got shot in Australia...well, I don't know what the point of that is.

And if you follow the increasing gun violence in Australia...you would know that criminals are not cooperating with their gun ban.....

Australia’s Gun 'Buyback' Created a Violent Firearms Black Market. Why Should the U.S. Do the Same?

Just days ago, Australia's Peter Dutton, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, and Michael Keenan, Minister for Justice, held a joint press conference to announce "We don't tolerate gun smuggling in Australia and we know Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs are engaged in it. We have been keen to send the strongest possible message from Canberra that we're not going to tolerate people smuggling in guns or smuggling in gun parts. You'd appreciate that even one smuggled gun can do an enormous amount of damage."

When politicians announce that they don't tolerate something, it's a fair bet that the something is completely out of hand.

"Police admit they cannot eradicate a black market that is peddling illegal guns to criminals," the Adelaide Advertiser concededa few years ago. "Motorcycle gang members and convicted criminals barred from buying guns in South Australia have no difficulty obtaining illegal firearms - including fully automatic weapons."

More recently, the country's The New Daily gained access to "previously unpublished data for firearms offences" and reporteda surge in crime "including a massive 83 per cent increase in firearms offences in NSW between 2005/06 and 2014/15, and an even bigger jump in Victoria over the same period."

"Australians may be more at risk from gun crime than ever before with the country's underground market for firearms ballooning in the past decade," the report added. "[T]he national ban on semi-automatic weapons following the Port Arthur massacre had spawned criminal demand for handguns."

Much as the Mafia and other organized criminal outfits rose to power, wealth, and prominence by supplying illegal liquor during Prohibition in the United States, outlaw motorcycle gangs in Australia appear to be building international connections and making money by supplying guns to willing buyers.

3/17/16


Eight shootings in one week

THIS could be the worst month for gun violence in Victoria since 2014, with eight shootings in the first 10 days of March including one man being killed.

The spate of shootings across the state has led to a specific taskforce from Victoria Police to focus on the increase of incidents.

The worst month for gun violence since 2014 was October last year, when there were 12 shootings, including one fatality.

Fairfax Media reports March is on track to beat the number of shootings last October, making it the worst month for shootings since at least 2014.

The latest shooting was last night, when the driver of a black Audi fired at another car with a handgun.

Victoria Police say a Mazda was stopped at a Sunshine West intersection when the Audi pulled up beside it.

The two men in the Audi then drew their guns and the driver fired into the rear passenger side of the Mazda

Scary trend in Australian gun crime

MONDAY’S siege in Sydney that saw three people shot and three held hostage before the gunman turned the firearm on himself was a terrifying reminder of the Lindt cafe crisis just over a year ago.

It comes as another man was shot dead in Victoria at close range last night, three days after a man was killed in a suspected shooting at a Melbourne motel and four days after a man was shot dead at a property in Ipswich, Queensland, with police called just after 2am.

Last month, a man accused of a shooting in Canberra allegedly boasted to police that the victim would be dead if he had pulled the trigger, because he had significant experience with firearms, despite not having a licence.

There were 207 firearms deaths in Australia in 2013, a rate of 0.93 per 100,000 people, higher than in 19 other countries, including the UK, Bolivia and Zimbabwe.

While we often shake our heads in horror at America’s problems with gun crime, it’s clear we are far from immune from the deadly influence of firearms.

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In New South Wales, weapons offences have risen 8.7 per cent per year over the past five years, to 11,471 in the year to September 2015. The New Daily reported in November that incidents involving firearms rose 83 per cent in NSW from 2005-6 to 2014-5. Charges for possession and trafficking of guns in South Australia saw a 49 per cent rise over four years.



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Victoria is similarly affected, with a 52 per cent increase in firearms offences to 3645 between 2009-10 and 2014-15. In Tasmania, there was a 26 per cent increase in firearm-related offences between December 2012 and 2015.

Victoria police chief Steve Fontana this week expressed fears about the rapid increase in shootings in the past eight months. The state’s Crime Statistics Agency Chief Statistician Fiona Dowsley said in December: “Weapons and explosives offences and drug use and possession offences have again seen statistically significant increases this quarter.”

 

[2aguy]

Does anyone thinks or has as a goal that the quantity of gun-related deaths fall to zero? The fact that one can find one individual in Australia who shot another individual is indicative of the implausibility of achieving the "zero gun deaths" outcome, despite the fact that achieving such an outcome is highly desirable.

In Australia, there is clear correlation between gun law reforms and the decline of gun deaths. AFAIK, causation has yet to be established.

After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, "rapid-fire long guns" were banned in Australia; a year later there was a mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms. Australia has had no fatal mass shootings since 1996. Since major gun law reforms were introduced in Australia, mass shootings have not only stopped, but there has also been an accelerating reduction in rates of firearm-related homicide and suicides, a landmark study has found.

Homicides involving firearms as a percentage of total homicides, 1915-2003

It has been two decades since rapid-fire long guns were banned in Australia, including those already in private ownership, and 19 years since the mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms by government at market price was introduced. A handgun buyback program was later introduced, in 2003.

Researchers from the University of Sydney and Macquarie University analysed data on intentional suicide and homicide deaths caused by firearms from the National Injury Surveillance Unit, and intentional firearm death rates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For the period after the 1996 reforms, rates of total homicides and suicides from all causes were also examined to consider whether people may have substituted guns for alternative means.

From 1979 to 1996, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths was rising at 2.1% per year. Since then, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths has been declining by 1.4%, with the researchers concluding there was no evidence of murderers moving to other methods, and that the same was true for suicide.

The average decline in total firearm deaths accelerated significantly, from a 3% decline annually before the reforms to a 5% decline afterwards, the study found. In the 18 years to 1996, Australia experienced 13 fatal mass shootings in which 104 victims were killed and at least another 52 were wounded. There have been no fatal mass shootings since that time, with the study defining a mass shooting as having at least five victims.

The 1996 reforms introduced in Australia came after a mass shooting known as the Port Arthur massacre in which Martin Bryant used two semi-automatic rifles to kill 35 people and wound 23 others in Port Arthur, Tasmania. The reforms had the support of all major political parties.​

As citing a single individual who got shot in Australia...well, I don't know what the point of that is.

And more on Australia's failed gun control....

Spike in handgun crimes reveals nation’s secret problem | The New Daily

Australians may be more at risk from gun crime than ever before with the country’s underground market for firearms ballooning in the past decade.

Previously unseen police statistics show that the number of pistol-related offences doubled in Victoria and rose by 300 per cent in New South Wales. At least two other states also saw a massive jump in firearms-related offences during the same period.



An investigation by The New Daily unearthed previously unpublished data for firearms offences collected from police and crime statistics agencies in four states – Victoria, NSW, South Australia and Tasmania.

The statistics detail the types of firearms offences police have pursued in the courts in the past decade and show some concerning findings, including a massive 83 per cent increase in firearms offences in NSW between 2005/06 and 2014/15, and an even bigger jump in Victoria over the same period.



Taken together, the data suggests that despite our tough anti-gun laws, thousands of weapons are either being stolen or entering the country illegally.

Associate Professor Philip Alpers, one of Australia’s leading firearms researchers and a director of the Centre for Armed Violence Reduction at the University of Sydney, said the national ban on semi-automatic weapons following the Port Arthur massacre had spawned criminal demand for handguns.

“The ban on semi-automatics created demand by criminals for other types of guns,” he said, adding: “The criminal’s gun of choice today is the semi-automatic pistol.”



Our investigation found:

• NSW: in 2014-15, there were 3463 firearms charges, up 83 per cent on 2005-06

• Victoria: in 2014-15, there were 3645 firearms-related charges, up 85 per cent on 2005-06

• SA: in 2014, charges for possession and trafficking of guns are up 49 per cent on 2010-11

• Tasmania: in 2014, charges for unlawful gun possession were up 32 per cent on 2005-06

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Although The New Daily has not been able to obtain data for Queensland and WA, the NSW statistics strongly suggest that the 12 months to the end of June 2011 was a turning point in the policing of Australia’s black market for firearms and ammunition.

In that year the charge count soared by almost 30 per cent in NSW, partly driven by a 61 per cent surge in charges for unauthorised possession of handguns. In the following year, the Victorian charge count also soared on the back of a 76 per cent blowout in ammunition-related charges.

 

[bodecea]

Yep......gun crime is on the rise in Australia, decades after they banned and confiscated guns....shooting seems to run in this family though...her son shot a police officer....in the face...

Gunman ‘better pray they don’t get caught’

THE husband of a mum-of-five shot in the chest last night has issued an emotional warning to the gunman responsible as she fights for life in hospital.

Steve Phillips said Leonie Stuart was still on life support after being shot in the chest at the family’s Glenroy home.

“I haven’t slept yet, this wears you out,” he told the Herald Sun as he returned to the Hubert St home this afternoon.

“Whoever did this better pray they don’t get caught because they’ll be history.”

Ms Stuart’s son Rodney Phillips, 25, is awaiting sentence for shooting a police officer in the face and trying to firebomb the family of underworld figure Carl Williams in 2015.

And....how does this make you feel?

 

[2aguy]

Yep......gun crime is on the rise in Australia, decades after they banned and confiscated guns....shooting seems to run in this family though...her son shot a police officer....in the face...

Gunman ‘better pray they don’t get caught’

THE husband of a mum-of-five shot in the chest last night has issued an emotional warning to the gunman responsible as she fights for life in hospital.

Steve Phillips said Leonie Stuart was still on life support after being shot in the chest at the family’s Glenroy home.

“I haven’t slept yet, this wears you out,” he told the Herald Sun as he returned to the Hubert St home this afternoon.

“Whoever did this better pray they don’t get caught because they’ll be history.”

Ms Stuart’s son Rodney Phillips, 25, is awaiting sentence for shooting a police officer in the face and trying to firebomb the family of underworld figure Carl Williams in 2015.

And....how does this make you feel?

Are you a psychiatrist?

 

[Pete7469]

Does anyone thinks or has as a goal that the quantity of gun-related deaths fall to zero? The fact that one can find one individual in Australia who shot another individual is indicative of the implausibility of achieving the "zero gun deaths" outcome, despite the fact that achieving such an outcome is highly desirable.

In Australia, there is clear correlation between gun law reforms and the decline of gun deaths. AFAIK, causation has yet to be established.

After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, "rapid-fire long guns" were banned in Australia; a year later there was a mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms. Australia has had no fatal mass shootings since 1996. Since major gun law reforms were introduced in Australia, mass shootings have not only stopped, but there has also been an accelerating reduction in rates of firearm-related homicide and suicides, a landmark study has found.

Homicides involving firearms as a percentage of total homicides, 1915-2003

It has been two decades since rapid-fire long guns were banned in Australia, including those already in private ownership, and 19 years since the mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms by government at market price was introduced. A handgun buyback program was later introduced, in 2003.

Researchers from the University of Sydney and Macquarie University analysed data on intentional suicide and homicide deaths caused by firearms from the National Injury Surveillance Unit, and intentional firearm death rates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For the period after the 1996 reforms, rates of total homicides and suicides from all causes were also examined to consider whether people may have substituted guns for alternative means.

From 1979 to 1996, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths was rising at 2.1% per year. Since then, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths has been declining by 1.4%, with the researchers concluding there was no evidence of murderers moving to other methods, and that the same was true for suicide.

The average decline in total firearm deaths accelerated significantly, from a 3% decline annually before the reforms to a 5% decline afterwards, the study found. In the 18 years to 1996, Australia experienced 13 fatal mass shootings in which 104 victims were killed and at least another 52 were wounded. There have been no fatal mass shootings since that time, with the study defining a mass shooting as having at least five victims.

The 1996 reforms introduced in Australia came after a mass shooting known as the Port Arthur massacre in which Martin Bryant used two semi-automatic rifles to kill 35 people and wound 23 others in Port Arthur, Tasmania. The reforms had the support of all major political parties.​

As citing a single individual who got shot in Australia...well, I don't know what the point of that is.

The goal of civil disarmament has nothing to do with reducing violence, public safety or any lofty, noble humanitarian purpose.

The purpose is to most effectively manage the human resource. It's impossible to force people to do the sort of shit libturds ultimately want, while the people have the means to resist. That's the bottom line.

The bolsheviks would have been wiped out if Russia had a second amendment.

 

[2aguy]

Does anyone thinks or has as a goal that the quantity of gun-related deaths fall to zero? The fact that one can find one individual in Australia who shot another individual is indicative of the implausibility of achieving the "zero gun deaths" outcome, despite the fact that achieving such an outcome is highly desirable.

In Australia, there is clear correlation between gun law reforms and the decline of gun deaths. AFAIK, causation has yet to be established.

After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, "rapid-fire long guns" were banned in Australia; a year later there was a mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms. Australia has had no fatal mass shootings since 1996. Since major gun law reforms were introduced in Australia, mass shootings have not only stopped, but there has also been an accelerating reduction in rates of firearm-related homicide and suicides, a landmark study has found.

Homicides involving firearms as a percentage of total homicides, 1915-2003

It has been two decades since rapid-fire long guns were banned in Australia, including those already in private ownership, and 19 years since the mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms by government at market price was introduced. A handgun buyback program was later introduced, in 2003.

Researchers from the University of Sydney and Macquarie University analysed data on intentional suicide and homicide deaths caused by firearms from the National Injury Surveillance Unit, and intentional firearm death rates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For the period after the 1996 reforms, rates of total homicides and suicides from all causes were also examined to consider whether people may have substituted guns for alternative means.

From 1979 to 1996, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths was rising at 2.1% per year. Since then, the average annual rate of total non-firearm suicide and homicide deaths has been declining by 1.4%, with the researchers concluding there was no evidence of murderers moving to other methods, and that the same was true for suicide.

The average decline in total firearm deaths accelerated significantly, from a 3% decline annually before the reforms to a 5% decline afterwards, the study found. In the 18 years to 1996, Australia experienced 13 fatal mass shootings in which 104 victims were killed and at least another 52 were wounded. There have been no fatal mass shootings since that time, with the study defining a mass shooting as having at least five victims.

The 1996 reforms introduced in Australia came after a mass shooting known as the Port Arthur massacre in which Martin Bryant used two semi-automatic rifles to kill 35 people and wound 23 others in Port Arthur, Tasmania. The reforms had the support of all major political parties.​

As citing a single individual who got shot in Australia...well, I don't know what the point of that is.

The goal of civil disarmament has nothing to do with reducing violence, public safety or any lofty, noble humanitarian purpose.

The purpose is to most effectively manage the human resource. It's impossible to force people to do the sort of shit libturds ultimately want, while the people have the means to resist. That's the bottom line.

The bolsheviks would have been wiped out if Russia had a second amendment.

And the nazis would never have risen to power if the victims of their tactics could have shot back.....

 

[JohnnyApplesack]

The US bans heroine and cocaine, both readily available

your point, sky pilot?

 

[2aguy]

The US bans heroine and cocaine, both readily available

your point, sky pilot?

That criminals will use guns no matter how many gun laws you make...and taking guns away from normal, law abiding gun owners does not effect the crime rate...

 

[JohnnyApplesack]

The US bans heroine and cocaine, both readily available

your point, sky pilot?

That criminals will use guns no matter how many gun laws you make...and taking guns away from normal, law abiding gun owners does not effect the crime rate...

fewer guns readily available, fewer gun murders

not that complicated slick

 

[2aguy]

The US bans heroine and cocaine, both readily available

your point, sky pilot?

That criminals will use guns no matter how many gun laws you make...and taking guns away from normal, law abiding gun owners does not effect the crime rate...

fewer guns readily available, fewer gun murders

not that complicated slick

And that is not true, fact based or based in actual reality.....moron.

In the 1990s we had 200 million guns in private hands and in 1997 we had 4.7 million people carrying guns for self defense.....in 2016 we now have 357-400 million guns in private hands and over 15 million people carrying guns for self defense....

Our gun murder rate went down 49%....our over all violent crime rate went down 75%.....slick..........our gun accidental death rate went down....our non fatal gun accident rate went down.....

you have no idea what you are talking about........does it hurt when you just talk out of your ass?

 

[Pete7469]

And the nazis would never have risen to power if the victims of their tactics could have shot back.....

It's also why democrooks in the 1860's started anti-gun laws, because their militant "activists" would have had to hide behind something thicker than a stupid white sheet. Democrooks and tyranny go hand in hand.