“Twenty Western Australians were killed by firearms last year. Police believe mental health may have been a factor in almost 50 per cent of those deaths,” Police Minister Paul Papalia said.
The 25-year-old was shot dead overnight at his home in Heddon Greta,about 20 kilometres east of Cessnock,in what police believe was a targeted attack.
The NFL team’s partnership with Black Rifle Coffee was revealed a day after seven people died in Chicago,prompting White Sox closer Liam Hendriks to call for change.
If Australia had the same population as the US,at our current gunshot homicide rate there would be 444 deaths a year. In the US it is around 20,000.
As the shooting at Robb Elementary unfolded,trained police officers fell back and cowered,while a killer with a weapon of mass destruction went about his malevolent business for 80 minutes. This is American gun logic,taken to the extreme.
Why do mass shootings keep happening in the US? What does the Second Amendment mean? Who are the NRA? And where is gun regulation reform at today?
Just hours before the shooting at a Texas school in which 19 children were killed this week,schoolgirl Matilda McCullough delivered this speech to her Australian classmates about the gun drills regularly held at her US school.
The Golden State coach was an 18-year-old freshman when his father,Malcolm Kerr,was assassinated by the militant group Islamic Jihad in Lebanon.
US basketball legend Steve Kerr unleashed in a pre-match press conference,saying 50 Republican senators were ‘holding us hostage’ on gun legislation.
Does it really need to be like this? Should going to school be an occupational hazard for the sake of the Second Amendment?
Today on Please Explain,senior culture writer Karl Quinn joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss the film Nitram and whether it should have been made.