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I read in the paper the other day that the Australian Gun Buy Back saves up to 280 lives each year. That has to be a good enough reason to keep guns off the streets.
Growing up in Belfast Northern Ireland I have seen first hand the destruction guns can do to human beings. Victims and their families. I for one will never use a gun or allow any of my children to use one either. My heart goes out to all the relatives in this tragedy.
I do think the kid involved wanted a lot of publicity because he sent his home made video to a news channel. That was reason in itself never to play the thing on air. The news media love this kind of thing and it makes me ashamed to be a human being seeing others gloat and glorifying over something that to me makes me sick to my stomach. No sooner had people heard about the murder of their loved ones, they had to put up with seeing the rantings of their murderer all over the media. I know, I know, the freedom of the press and all that. Somewhere somehow there has to be a line drawn and never be allowed to cross. The tragedy has to be reported I'm not saying it shouldn't, but the home video's of these deranged killers should be for the authorities only, not the general public.
Gazz
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