had it been 3 whites shooting a young coloured man jogging in America you can be sure it would be classed a racist attack. Not so a white Aussie. So many double standards.

In a discussion it is possibly easier to call other people racist, than for some people to backup there argument on certain issues.

According to police - three "bored" teenagers (ages 15 - 16),
shot a passing jogger, having nothing better to do with their
time. It is a tragedy. A tragedy that will affect the lives of
family members across two continents. One wonders how these
teenagers were able to access fire-arms and whether this will
have any bearing on a push for stronger gun-control laws?

Lexi [translated], 'They are blameless, the gun made them do it'.

Doubtless their parents are also at fault along with society, blah, blah...

Of course the simpler explanation is that they are gutless evil types who would offend anyhow and with whatever tool was convenient, including their bare fists and boots. Doubtless a history will come out in due course. They deserve to go to prison. One case where Milat style mongrels were discovered early through their own stupidity.

Runner is right though. The usual suspects would have worked the media up to a frenzy if the roles were reversed. It is called political correctness. As is blaming the tool.

onthebeach, Who in this tread "blamed the tool"? Lexi questions where and how they got it and if it may have a bearing on law changes. She did not say it was because they had a gun that the murder happened!
I agree that it would have been classed a racist killing had roles been reversed. Political correctness gone too far yet again. Or maybe they would have shot anyone they came across.
Gun Laws in America do need tightening, however those determined to get one will get one no matter what. The fact that at least one of the parents of these kids believes his son is "Innocent" says a lot. And the Herald Sun does mention gangs and general bad behaviour, but not to this scale. Whilst maybe push over parents may be one factor in this, as you are saying, in the end it is no ones fault but the 3 that committed the crime. They are old enough to know killing is wrong, heck my 2 year old knows that!

Yes I agree there would have been much more of an outcry, and possibly some added violence, if three caucasion guys drove by and shot dead an African American jogger.

But if the 3 youths didn't have a gun, the Aussie jogger may have had more of a fighting chance at least. Only cowards shoot someone else in the back.

After reading about the country with one of the lowest violent crime rates in the world, Singapore, and the one with one of the highest violent crime rates in the world , America, I wasn't surprised to read about this awful crime.

The main similarity about these 2 countries is that they both have the death penalty for murderers.
The main differences between these two countries is that Singapore has very strict gun laws, with serious punishments for just brandishing a gun in public, let alone discharging it, while America thinks it is their citizens' constitutional right' to bear arms.

So, do I think the slack gun laws, and high gun ownership levels, in America have lead to crimes like this one?
Well even blind Freddie can see that...