Tweets don't kill people - guns kill people

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Analysis: Tweets don’t kill people - guns kill people, and more than 20 years after John Howard's gun buy-back scheme, we are sliding backwards.

To blame Facebook is the same as blaming a paint company for graffiti or the inventors of paper for Mein Kampf.

Just a reminder - 50 people were murdered and a further 50 injured. Is it really the time to have a media squabble over matters that don't matter when most of the people we are supposed to inform are responding with compassion and empathy to this unspeakable tragedy? Now, more than 20 years later, we are sliding back. According to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission there are about 250,000 long arm and 10,000 hand guns in the illicit market and around 2.9 million legal guns.

And so what are we doing to get these guns off the street? Not enough. In NSW they have Operation Talon - a statewide crackdown on illegal guns and a taskforce working on the market.A truck unloads prohibited firearms at a scrapmetal yard in 1997 after the Port Arthur massacre a year earlier.Last year, the Victorian government introduced Firearm Prohibition Orders - a powerful weapon against crooks who carry weapons.

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Yes, Fraser Anning isn't a bigot....it's his mouth that keeps doing all that nasty putrid stuff. Give the guy a break ffs

Guns don’t kill people.

How many people were shot in Melbourne last week...Oh yeah gun laws. Firearms will always be in circulation no matter how tough you are on law abiding citizens. We have an awesome over the horizon radar system but we don't have the assets to secure our borders. Smugglers win.

Ideas kill people but restricting the ease of means is a step in the right direction.

Trump is whipping his far right mates into a frenzy and they react. They then use a gun to kill people. Yet to see a gun walk into a room and start shooting by itself!

Which country did he buy the guns from Tic tic

Rascism from Australia is the analysis of the NZ massacre. Guns are a smoke screen.

Agree!

They both have a role to play, as does the media.

Who was that politician pushing for the Adler shot gun to be allowed?

Would you take Telstra to court and ban them if someone used so-called 'hate speech' on their voice onlyservice? What would you do to do to Apple's FaceTime, which has streaming of video, if an individual spoke in a racist way to another using it. Of course NZ massacre terrible.

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