2aguy
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52 people were shot last year? That's what you call out of control gun crime?Another article on gun crime in Australia .......
More than 14 hardened criminals are being found in possession of firearms each week as the state grapples with a rising gun culture that has led to twice as many Victorians shot dead in 2019.
The Age can reveal 52 people were shot and 14 fatally gunned down across the state last year, twice as many as the previous 12 months, with handguns increasingly used by criminals to settle drug debts or underworld disputes.
During the past 24 hours lives were threatened in two separate gun crimes in Melbourne's north after a shot was fired as a Hadfield supermarket owner wrestled a gun from the hand of a robber and armed bandits reportedly stormed a Westmeadows tavern eight kilometres away.
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Anti-gangs division Detective Superintendent Peter Brigham said illegal firearms were routinely unearthed at the homes of drug traffickers and in the possession of “gangster types” chasing image and status.
Gun violence grips Victoria as deadly shootings double
More than 14 hardened criminals are being found in possession of firearms each week as the state grapples with a rising gun culture that has led to a 50 per cent spike in the number of Victorian's gunned down in 2019.www.theage.com.au
Quick question......are "Assault rifles," banned in Australia now?
How about grenades....you know...grenades?
n September, a 35-year-old Docklands man was sentenced to at least eight years' jail for heroin trafficking. As part of his plea deal, the former Iraqi national led police to a cache of weapons wrapped in plastic and hidden in a Melbourne drain. They included an SKS assault rifle and grenades.
See...the problem? Australia seems to have forgotten to ban high powered military rifles for criminals........perhaps they should pass more gun control laws.....
And while handguns were proving to be the gun of choice among young men, high powered military-grade firearms were in demand from the city’s outlaw motorcycle gangs.
What do you call 30,000 people shot last year?
And you lie...of those 30,000, 23,000 were suicides.....in 2019 there were 10,258 gun murders in the U.S.....70-80% of the victims were criminals engaged in crime.....of the rest, the majority of them are friends and family of criminals caught in the crossfire....
Meanwhile....Americans use their legal guns 1.1 million times a year to stop rapes, robberies and murders....according to the Centers for Disease Control...
Australia has a gun murder rate because their criminals choose not to commit murder...they have guns, they just don't use them to murder each other in large numbers...but that is changing...their drug gangs are being taken over by 3rd world males, who don't care about Australian laws or culture....