2aguy
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- Jul 19, 2014
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Yes.....Australia used to be a nice place....but apparently there is a growing gun violence problem.....and the people doing the shooting are immigrants to Down Under......
Gun city: Gunslingers of the North West
As Kheir lay bleeding in his driveway, and two gunmen ran from his cul-de-sac, the detectives about to be called to the scene were already seething.
Their patch was becoming uncontrollable.
The shooting was the latest bloody example that they were failing to stop young men intent on violence.
It prompted another forceful approach from local police to head office demanding more resources to tackle gun crime. This time, they listened.
The Santiago taskforce was formed; an acknowledgement that the gunmen of the north-west were a problem of statewide importance.
It found that 25 families of mostly Lebanese, Turkish, Iranian, Iraqi and Afghani origin were linked to almost all of the shootings and other crime in the north-west.
Some of the offenders were toddlers when their parents left the Middle East in the 1980s or 1990s. Others were the first generation of their family born in Australia.
Either way, they had fallen through the cracks, like many others - regardless of cultural background - who were raised in the north-west.
Gun city: Gunslingers of the North West
As Kheir lay bleeding in his driveway, and two gunmen ran from his cul-de-sac, the detectives about to be called to the scene were already seething.
Their patch was becoming uncontrollable.
The shooting was the latest bloody example that they were failing to stop young men intent on violence.
It prompted another forceful approach from local police to head office demanding more resources to tackle gun crime. This time, they listened.
The Santiago taskforce was formed; an acknowledgement that the gunmen of the north-west were a problem of statewide importance.
It found that 25 families of mostly Lebanese, Turkish, Iranian, Iraqi and Afghani origin were linked to almost all of the shootings and other crime in the north-west.
Some of the offenders were toddlers when their parents left the Middle East in the 1980s or 1990s. Others were the first generation of their family born in Australia.
Either way, they had fallen through the cracks, like many others - regardless of cultural background - who were raised in the north-west.
