When one country - one continent - became enlightened

[packman]

Guns from the buy-back scheme after the 1996 Port Arthur shooting in Australia. No mass shootings have occurred since




The Port Arthur massacre of 28–29 April 1996 was a killing spree in which 35 people were killed and 23 wounded. It occurred mainly at the historic Port Arthur former prison colony,[1] a popular tourist site in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia.[2]

Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old from New Town, a suburb of Hobart, was found guilty of the shootings and given 35 life sentences without possibility of parole.[3] Following the incident, it emerged in the media that Bryant had significant intellectual disabilities. He is now imprisoned in the Wilfred Lopes Centre near the Risdon Prison Complex.[4]

Following the spree, the Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, introduced strict gun control laws within Australia and formulated the National Firearms Programme Implementation Act 1996, restricting the private ownership of high capacity semi-automatic rifles, semi-automatic shotguns and pump-action shotguns as well as introducing uniform firearms licensing. It was implemented with bipartisan support by the Commonwealth, states and territories"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_%28Australia%29

[KamaAina]

1. Two continents down, five to go

Antarctica doesn't have nay mass shootings, either.

[beevul]

2. Not too many 'assault weapons' in that pic.

But I see lots and lots of traditional hunting arms.

[hunter]

3. Awww, look at all those poor guns headed for the furnace...

(w)

Why did they have to die?

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