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At a news conference outside the residence where one of the #shootings occurred, officials appeared stunned, requesting patience & prayers from the community as they sorted through multiple crime scenes.

“I just don’t know what to say, my heart is just taken aback,” #Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith said. “I cannot begin to imagine how such an event could occur.”

#terrorism #MassShooting #criminal #law #GunControl #GunLaws

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Nonilex 1d ago

The gunman later died after a chase with officers who fired at the suspect, Bordelon said. The suspect stole a car while leaving the scene of the #shootings & was followed by police.

Ofcls said they were still gathering details at the crime scenes south of downtown #Shreveport — the 2 homes & a 3rd location. Some of the #children shot were related to the suspect.

“This is an extensive scene unlike anything most of us have ever seen,” he said.

#terrorism #MassShooting #law #GunControl #GunLaws

Nonilex 1d ago

8 #children between the ages of 1 & 14 are dead after a #MassShooting in #Louisiana, police say

A gunman in Louisiana killed 8 children in domestic-related #shootings at 2 different homes early Sunday, police in #Shreveport said.

The victims ranged in age from 1 to about 14 years old, said Shreveport police spox Chris Bordelon. A total of 10 people were shot.

#terrorism #criminal #law #GunControl #GunLaws
https://apnews.com/article/shreveport-mass-shooting-louisiana-15098626d4c868b2bbc8a957a6a6ead8

8 children dead after mass shooting in Louisiana, police say

Authorities in Louisiana say a gunman killed eight children in domestic-related shootings in the city of Shreveport. The children killed early Sunday range in age from 1 to about 14 years old. Shreveport Police spokesperson Chris Bordelon says a total of 10 people were shot. Officials said they were still gathering details from the crime scenes that extended across three locations. Police say the gunman later died after a chase with officers who fired at the suspect. They say the suspect stole a car while leaving the scene of the shootings. The mayor of Shreveport calls it a tragic situation, maybe the worst the city has ever seen.

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RaymondPierreL3 Apr 10

In his article for The Point, the vice chair of Gun Control Australia and a lawyer Roland Browne concludes:

“Australia is now moving to review gun laws, jurisdiction by jurisdiction. The “genuine reason” requirement remains very good public policy. What is needed is refinement in the evidence necessary to satisfy the firearms registration authority as to the bona fides of the applicant, and to ensure that each firearm that is acquired can equally satisfy the registering authority as being for good reason.

If this is achieved, it will further enhance public safety, especially in combination with a series of other reforms that are coming down the line throughout Australia. If not, the number of unnecessary guns in the community will continue to increase, along with the risk to public safety.”

In NSW, the proposed reform goes further, mandating citizenship, membership of a gun club, mandatory club shoot participation and reporting, as well as caps on the number of firearms based on validated reason stated on the licence.

But the biggest stumbling blocks remain. 1) A need for one single National Firearms Register, 2) the need for uniform national licensing laws/regulations and most importantly 3) more funding and effort on getting unlicenced firearms off the streets nationwide.

#AusPol #GunLaws #FirearmsRegister #FirearmsLicense

Australia's gun laws need reform: tightening the "genuine reason" requirement

Recent Australia Institute research showing that perhaps 200,000 people in NSW have gun licences that they don’t need highlights a key aspect of Australia’s gun laws that has not been well implemented. To own a gun here, you need a genuine reason to. Post-Bondi, Australia’s gun laws are in the spotlight and understanding their details and history will be important if they are to be strengthened effectively.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Mar 18

#Nazi gun laws are nothing like the US #FarRight would have you believe. First, it's true they disarmed Jewish people... but only Jewish people. In all other respects the Nazi #GunLaws, first revised #ThisDayInHistory in 1938, made it easier to own & use guns, even for children.

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RaymondPierreL3 Mar 17

@skua
Yes, it is anything but a reasoned and logical discourse based on facts and data. How can you expect the public to form an opinion with this kind of discourse going on at the highest levels of society?

#GunLaws #AusPol

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RaymondPierreL3 Mar 17

Here is the article from which this Press Release was issued.
https://thepoint.com.au/explainers/260317-the-gaping-hole-in-australias-gun-laws-explained

Note that the only reliable data available to the author is from the NSW Firearms Registry and the article cherry picks from this resource to hammer home the point that gun laws in Autralia, generally, are too permissive. And I agree with that.

I do not know where the Australian Sports Commission get their data from, presumably from olympic discipline feeder parts of gun clubs, but I suggest that this data is limited and not representative of all club membership and their activities.

The author also relies on information from the QLD SSAA which in no longer a Branch of the National SSAA, a point glossed over by the author, and hence does not represent the rest of the country in terms of rifle shooters within the national SSAA’s ambit. QLD have long been unrepresentative of the rest of Australia in many ways, especially in terms of gun ownership which is seen as a right up there (I’m generalising here as well due to lack of data).

What seems to emerge from this article, is that the author commits the same errors our NSW govt committed, a lack of complete and open minded consultations with all affected parties before making up their minds as to what needs to be done. Had the author spoken with the National SSAA, the article would have a different tone and different conclusions, and gone some ways to strenghten Australia’s gun laws rathr than ‘thrashing’ them outright.

#GunLaws #AusPol

The gaping hole in Australia’s gun laws explained

To get a gun licence in Australia, an applicant must have a “genuine reason” to use a gun. You can’t just have a gun because you want one -- firearm ownership is a privilege in Australia, not the sort of right that United States gun owners never tire of talking about.

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RaymondPierreL3 Mar 17

@SeanHawley
Hmmmm… the Australia Institute should get their ‘sports’ shooter licence data from firearms registries, not sports associations. That data will show that there are strict reporting compliance levied on firearms licences one of which is that a number of gun club competition participation per reporting season is required to maintain that licence.

The author also fails to identify the source of the data used to support his arguments beyond the nebulous ‘official sports participation’ data. Heck, the author isn’t even identified. Disappointed in Australia Institute for releasing this headline-like vacuous ‘Press Release’.

Prove me wrong and I’ll apologise. Remember…there are lies, damned lies and statistics. Having said that, I will agree that there are a lot of things which ought to be done to make gun ownership safer, the obvious one is to legislate a single set of national gun laws and regulations and establish a single national firearms registry properly staffed and funded. One law, one registry, one set of compliance orders. I’ll be dead before that happens I’ll bet.

Disclosure: I am a licensed sports shooter (target shooting).
#GunLaws #AusPol

RaymondPierreL3 Mar 15

It seems to me that the public discussion on #firearm control would better be served if govts released the documents or transcripts of meetings and the information they have gathered to help them come to their decisions — there’s something going on, otherwise all States would come out with the same data that would inform pretty uniform decisions nationally. Instead we, yet again, have different #gunlaws in different jurisdictions. Oh…and guess what, the #NationalFirearmsRegistry Howard legislated for, well we’re still waiting for that and likely to wait a long while yet, if we ever get one.

So, either govts did not consult widely nor gathered the facts and acted on politcal gut feel, or there’s power (aka money) behind the decisions and nothing to do with keeping guns out of the hands of #Crims and #NutCases.
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For the sake of full disclosure, I am an active member of a gun club.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-15/tas-chief-of-police-on-firearms-ownership-limits/106456894

Plea from top cop for limit on gun ownership knocked back

In the push for gun law reform in the wake of the Bondi attack, Tasmania's Police Commissioner urged the state government to limit the number of firearms a person can own, citing the murder of an officer the year before in her plea — but to no avail, documents show.