Here in Australia we’ve had tight gun controls for the past 24 years. Mass shootings are incredibly rare, and school shootings unheard of. We also don’t have the appalling firearm suicides that you have in America.
Dear Philip,
And just how did we get those tight gun control laws? With just a little help from Dr. Death, aka Rebecca Peters and John Crook, Samantha Lee and Roland Browne from Gun Control Australia. Then there were the second tier players such as Professor Simon Chapman and Philip Alpers the former NZ disc jockey now embedded in the Sydney University.
Prior to 1996 the highest deaths by firearms were suicides, but once that means was removed then the suicides were committed by train deaths and motor car accidents. About ten years ago we had one suicide by driving her vehicle on the wrong side of a dual highway and then ploughing into an oncoming vehicle killing the four occupants from a single family. I’m afraid that those appalling (firearm) suicides didn’t stop with the ban on firearms.
Are you aware that in January 1996, a member of the Australian Federal Attorney-General’s office penned a letter to the UN stating That Australia would be implementing their required new firearm laws by May of 1996, that is 3 months before the Port Arthur Massacre?
And of course the Cain government in Victoria started firearm registration in 1984, and then in 1987 Melbourne suffered two mass murders, the Hoddle Street massacre by Julian Knight who was under a psychosis at the time and then the Queen Street massacre where the shooter Frank Vitkovic was screaming out ‘How do they expect me to kill people with this gun’, after somebody had sawn off both parts of the stock and part of the barrel so as it could fit into the carry bag.
Of course Dunblane takes the cake as the first policeman to arrive at the school Gym where the massacre took place, was an off-duty police constable McCutcheon who was at the school office when he heard of the shooting and from there rang the local police station where he worked and then went with the school head-master Ken Taylor to the gym where McCutcheon saw the still shaking body of Thomas Hamilton, with the brains about 18 inches from the head, and a ‘Browning’ automatic pistol which had been used to murder the teachers and students, near the body, whilst McCutcheon also saw the school janitor, John Currie handling a second ‘Browning’ automatic. Those were the only handguns seen on site until the ‘Scene of Crime’ investigator Chisholm arrived and ordered the scene to be vacated, and then two Smith and Wesson handguns appeared on site.
And the significance of this was that Thomas Hamilton had died by ‘apparently’ shooting himself in the head, once according to the autopsy, or twice according to bullet holes in the wall behind Hamilton’s head, with a Smith and Wesson, a firearm that was not at the scene when the first policeman arrived.
And for Americans, Hillary Clinton was endeavouring to make firearm treaties with the UN just prior to the Colorado Theatre massacre and the Sandy Hook massacre, and never forget that at Sandy Hook, the murder weapon, a ‘Bushmaster AR-15’ was locked safely away in the boot (trunk) of the black Honda sedan whilst all the killings took place.
And of course in Victoria, Australia at the moment you may hear of the deaths supposedly by Covid-19 but not the deaths by suicide , or murder by government are not mentioned.
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Fingers crossed that there is someone out there to protect me if either Biden or Trump wins . . .
Katherine
Did you know that the 2A was so obvious to those who drafted the French constitution that they didn’t include it?!
Here in Australia we’ve had tight gun controls for the past 24 years. Mass shootings are incredibly rare, and school shootings unheard of. We also don’t have the appalling firearm suicides that you have in America.
Dear Philip,
And just how did we get those tight gun control laws? With just a little help from Dr. Death, aka Rebecca Peters and John Crook, Samantha Lee and Roland Browne from Gun Control Australia. Then there were the second tier players such as Professor Simon Chapman and Philip Alpers the former NZ disc jockey now embedded in the Sydney University.
Prior to 1996 the highest deaths by firearms were suicides, but once that means was removed then the suicides were committed by train deaths and motor car accidents. About ten years ago we had one suicide by driving her vehicle on the wrong side of a dual highway and then ploughing into an oncoming vehicle killing the four occupants from a single family. I’m afraid that those appalling (firearm) suicides didn’t stop with the ban on firearms.
Are you aware that in January 1996, a member of the Australian Federal Attorney-General’s office penned a letter to the UN stating That Australia would be implementing their required new firearm laws by May of 1996, that is 3 months before the Port Arthur Massacre?
And of course the Cain government in Victoria started firearm registration in 1984, and then in 1987 Melbourne suffered two mass murders, the Hoddle Street massacre by Julian Knight who was under a psychosis at the time and then the Queen Street massacre where the shooter Frank Vitkovic was screaming out ‘How do they expect me to kill people with this gun’, after somebody had sawn off both parts of the stock and part of the barrel so as it could fit into the carry bag.
Of course Dunblane takes the cake as the first policeman to arrive at the school Gym where the massacre took place, was an off-duty police constable McCutcheon who was at the school office when he heard of the shooting and from there rang the local police station where he worked and then went with the school head-master Ken Taylor to the gym where McCutcheon saw the still shaking body of Thomas Hamilton, with the brains about 18 inches from the head, and a ‘Browning’ automatic pistol which had been used to murder the teachers and students, near the body, whilst McCutcheon also saw the school janitor, John Currie handling a second ‘Browning’ automatic. Those were the only handguns seen on site until the ‘Scene of Crime’ investigator Chisholm arrived and ordered the scene to be vacated, and then two Smith and Wesson handguns appeared on site.
And the significance of this was that Thomas Hamilton had died by ‘apparently’ shooting himself in the head, once according to the autopsy, or twice according to bullet holes in the wall behind Hamilton’s head, with a Smith and Wesson, a firearm that was not at the scene when the first policeman arrived.
And for Americans, Hillary Clinton was endeavouring to make firearm treaties with the UN just prior to the Colorado Theatre massacre and the Sandy Hook massacre, and never forget that at Sandy Hook, the murder weapon, a ‘Bushmaster AR-15’ was locked safely away in the boot (trunk) of the black Honda sedan whilst all the killings took place.
And of course in Victoria, Australia at the moment you may hear of the deaths supposedly by Covid-19 but not the deaths by suicide , or murder by government are not mentioned.