The Australian’s Washington Correspondent Adam Creighton says the horse has “well and truly bolted” for gun control in the United States with hundreds of millions of guns floating around.
Suspected Maine mass shooter Robert Card is the subject of a massive manhunt over a Wednesday night shooting spree which left 18 people dead.
Mr Creighton said shootings like those committed in Maine are almost “immediately politicised” but noted there will be no “substantive change” to gun laws.
“These shootings are all too frequent and it’s a great tragedy, it’s a shocking atrocity,” he told Sky News host James Morrow.
Federal, state, county and local authorities are desperately trying to locate Card.
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Not touching mine
Aussies, mind your own business on guns.
Australia should be the last to speak on gun control, perhaps you can explain why the FBI/ATF/ANTI GUN CRITICS/NICS BACKGROUND failed the citizens once again. This is the 7th time this has happened resulting in mass shootings by people who should of never had one.
Australia ducks Chinese Wang. Bunch of cucks
Hey Austrailia.
Why are you so obsessed with American Gun Rights?
Criminals don't care about laws. Citizens have a right to them for lawful purposes including self defense.
Gun control really was a nonstarter to begin with, the US governments behavior over the last 35 years alone simply reinforced the belief that government was not o be trusted.
Tbh if America ever banned guns, the illegal gun market would go crazy and it would be facilitated by previously law abiding citizens and it would be exploited like crazy by criminals. Also citizens with guns are a bulwark against tyranny
Wouldn't consider anything Albanese does or says a success. Guaranteed his teenage nick name was either ALBO the ABBO or could it have been WEESAL
Apart from being a supporter of ISIS Hamas and being anti-Semitic, Mr Albanese won't go to Israel to show them support because Emperor Xi said not to.
The CCP, Russia and Iran don't like Israel.
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Hold onto your firearms, my American brothers and sisters.
From Melbourne 🇦🇺
The people who decry nutjob shootings do nothing to take care of the nutjobs. Pitiful asylums were emptied rather than improved by the same self righteous demagogues that defunded police instead of improving training. Now the crazies are living on the streets and the police won't/can't do their jobs. The arrogant people that caused the problems don't care, because there is no impact on their manicured front lawns.
WE need another clean up of guns in Australia now as the numbers of guns here are apparently as high now as they were at time of the buy-back. ANY time from now would be good as the longer it goes unchecked the more it becomes impossible to do. Dont let OUR horse bolt or we will be in the same position as the US.
Nobody will ever take our firearms. Ever.
The difference between Australia and the US when it comes to guns is that in Australia a gun is a privilege the government can take away, but in the US owning a firearm is a right that the government can’t infringe upon. There is quite a bit of distrust in the government here. Depending on what time and history and what side of the political spectrum you sit on, there is always a faction that believes the government is using its power against them. That doesn’t help any effort to create more barriers to gun ownership. So yeah, this shooting is tragic. No one denied that. This man said he was hearing voices, he shouldn’t have had a gun. The laws on the books support that, at least until it’s clear he isn’t a danger to society. Guns are dangerous and in the hands of the mentally ill tragedy can occur. I don’t know anyone who disagrees with that. But to take away a right from the 99.99% of gun owners who are responsible and safe with their firearms would not be Justice for those who were tragically murdered. It wouldn’t even make anyone more safe. There are plenty of ways to cause mass murder if someone is bent on doing so. Criminals will still get their guns because they are criminals. You just punish the law abiding citizens for the actions of a tiny minority.
What we do in the US is no concern of Australia. Mind your business.
Yea all this punditry when someone does this about gun banning. They are banned in Chicago!!! Every week dozens are shot, several killed in a place where they are banned! This is a stupid debate. He went where he knew there would be no defense to face him. Pfft! Emotional reaction that does not apply to the criminally insane. Mental Health treatment in the USA is nonexistent – how about that?! You trust politicians? You’re stupid then!
I wear a lifejacket on a boat and carry a firearm on my person every day. I don't want to ever need either of them, nor do I want to be in either situation. But I still need these two things to surivive those two situations unless I get incredibly lucky.
Americans need to hang on to there firearms,we in Australia have been nueted with firearm laws,as in the last 3 years we have been ridden rough shod by our politicians who continually trying changing laws.But nobody wants to do anything about mental health
GOOD NOW AUSTRALIA CAN GET ITS GUNS BACK 🇦🇺👍