Posted on 02/26/2018 11:08:43 AM PST by marktwain
Top 2 lines, blue, total suicides and suicides with guns. Bottom 2 lines, purple, total homicides and homicides with guns |
In Australia there was a shooting at a school in 1999.I am reminded of the scene from Animal House, where Bluto exclaims:
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?and a listener replies "Forget it, he's rolling."
Isn’t giving attention to these shooters bad? The potential school shooters see they get the attention they want?
It is not about facts.
Ask The Real Crocodile Dundee!
Ooopps! He was killed!
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Give them what they crave. Televise the hanging.
I never knew that but it is true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Australia
It’s also true that Australia has more guns no than before the ban.
apparently the student misspoke, was talking about the 1996 massacre where 35 were shot dead. The gun ban went into effect because of that. And it does look like gun related “massacres” from that list, did decrease after that.
Yes. They went down in New Zealand as well, which did not enact extreme gun controls.
The murder rate in the U.S. decreased more, over the same time period, than the murder rate in Australia did.
One of the differences between the U.S. and Australia, was that after the Australian media got what they wanted with extreme gun control, they stopped promoting mass gun murder.
http://www.class.org.au/ideas_kill.htm
In the U.S. the media continues to make celebrities of mass murderers.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/the-media-has-blood-on-its-hands-in.html
What brought about the gun laws in Australia was the Port Arthur, Tasmania Massacre in Mar 1996, which was a penal colony back in the day and is now used for tourism. We went there during our Australia, New Zealand cruise.
True, it was the event used to institute the agenda.
It was not a school shooting.
The media in Australia practically *begged* for a mass shooting in Tasmania. They triggered the shooter who did it.
However, other forms of murder were used since then.
Point is...bad guys will use whatever means are necessary to kill good people.
You’re not supposed to tell people that!
I grew up in the 60s, 70s, and 80s and there weren't the frequent events like today. And bullying was very common.
Maybe it is because the country has lost it soul. Maybe broken homes....
IN some ways. Although the 1996 massacre was so large, it skews all the numbers, it’s an outlier.
1991 - 7
1992 - 6
1993 - 5
1994 - 0
1995 - 0
1996 - 41
1997 - 5
1998 - 0
1999 - 3
2000 - 15
After that, they went years before another fire massacre.
But there is no rational basis for crediting a 1996 ban with a decrease in the 2000’s.
Anyway, the “gun ban” included mandatory turn-in, but only 20% of the targeted guns were actually turned in (about a million), leaving millions of Australians as technically criminal.
And the biker gangs proliferated, and illegal gun sales skyrocketed, along with illegal sales of other weapons, including RPGs. Once you have an illegal weapons trade, it expands of course.
These fake statistics outright lies about how.
“peaceful and lovely”Australia post gun grab, are all over Facebook.
“One of the differences between the U.S. and Australia, was that after the Australian media got what they wanted with extreme gun control, they stopped promoting mass gun murder.”
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