And gee, all because of the actions of someone (Martin Bryant) who should have been locked up in a mental hospital as soon as he reached adulthood as he constantly demonstrated that he simply could not be trusted to live his own life and handle his own affairs in that basic, proper manner we all take for granted.
Yes, and the Australian media went out of its way to incentivize him to commit mass murder.
During the trial, he asked his lawyer, several times, “Did I break the record?”
I cannot help but believe that California released Pat Purdy from a mental institution just so they would have incentive to pass their handgun registration and “As-s-s-ault rifle ban.”
This was just a few years after the citizens of California turned down a handgun registration and ban scheme back in 1982. Prop 15.