amazing no one asked about the dead man and his family and loved ones
the tragic loss to their loved ones
i guess he is dispensable

we must look at how the 3 murderers should be rehabilitated
we must study if society was at fault
we must see if their parents were too lenient
we must examine if their parents caned and spanked them which in turn started this violent streak in them because of emotional scars
we must NOT blame the gun ownership policy because we love our individual choice (never mind if a poor aussie student got killed)

no no...we must not even say horrendous things like 'these murderers should be shot or hanged"

boredom, guns etc. why do we find an excuse for something so evil. Maybe we are in denial.

does seem that finally some of the press have had their pc shackles broken.

One of the killers quoted as saying 'he hated white people '.

Can't say I am surprised.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/chilling-911-call-details-final-moments-of-melbourne-baseballer-chris-lane8217s-life/story-fni0fiyv-1226700172461

platypus,

"no no...we must not even say horrendous things like 'these murderers should be shot or hanged"

Not if we believe in the God-given absolute ethic of "the sanctity of human life".

Dear Bec,

Thank You for understanding my earlier post.
My intention was not to label, or finger-point
but to try to broaden the discussion in our
attempts at looking for answers to this tragedy.
I thought that regardless of the motives for
the random killing - the severe restriction
of private handgun ownership in the US could
perhaps be raised in instances such as this tragedy
and the loss of lives that they cause and grief to
families.

We all know that in international terms, the United
States is an extremely violent society, with a
homicide rate far exceeding that of any other
industrialised nation.
A single American city like Chicago, Houston, or
Los Angeles records more murders in a typical year
than does the whole of England, where even the police do
not normally carry guns.

Most other countries severely restrict private handgun
ownership, but there are at over 60 million handguns in
the US - and weapons of this type are used in more than three
quarters of the tens of thousands of murders that occur
each year.

I am not blaming the guns for these crimes.
To suggest that is not logical. I am suggesting
that perhaps Americans need to look at the liberty being
granted to the individual in not having stronger laws on
handguns - so that deviants do not continue to abuse
the freedom currently granted to them by American society.
It seems like a high price for American society to pay,
and I'm sure that in this particular case - the
families of the deceased just may agree.

@sus

you left out the impt fact
in singapore, disciplining of the child, yes even 2 yo with a teeny weeny cane or spanking is expected of a parent
yes, it is lawful until it becomes childabuse
and no busybodies will poke his/her nose into anyone else family...again unless it is abuse

ok ok... some lost soul here will say the cane is a weapon
LOL

i was told, one of the worse shame a parent can have hurled at them is their children are not well brought up

many of them told me, these white kids should have been spanked instead of having their exasperated parents pleading with them to behave

the british vet from manchester is right in saying she would have spanked the badly behaved kid if she was the mother

so much for the badly brought up aussie kids we have here