Hi Foxy,

My concern is, there are those who are dismissive of this type of tragedy, claiming; "nothing to see here". We as a society need to be every vigilant, as there are those who seek to white-ant our gun laws at every opportunity.

News today is the alleged murderer in this case, Darryl Young had a police gun ban overturned, he was previously banned from owning a gun licence before successfully appealing the ruling

Queensland Police refused to renew Darryl Valroy Young's gun licence in 2010 after it found he was "not a fit and proper person" to hold firearms.

It added an approval for a licence to own four rifles and a shotgun "was not considered to be in the public interest".

But the 59-year-old appealed to the Civil and Administrative Tribunal claiming he needed the weapons for his business, to kill feral animals on his property in Bogie.

"I would like the Tribunal to over turn the rejection notice as I have not broken any laws to stop me having a gun licence," Young wrote, his appeal was successful.

BTW; I hate to compare the failed gun state of America with Australia, where the gun lobby have almost total control of gun laws, unfortunately we see the result of that (non) control on a daily basis. There are those in Australia who seek to implement out of control American style gun laws here.

Comparing America and Australia on gun laws is a bit like comparing Venus and Earth on Climate Change.

Definitely agree, before allowed access to weapons and getting a licence applicants should be tested for mental health, if this was done the most common murder weapon in Australia would not be available to so many people.
Strict licencing of owners and registration of weapons is a proven method of decreasing attacks that leave many victims horribly wounded and others dead.

Anyone disagree?

I don't disagree with mental health scanning, are we saying we don't do that?

Of course we don’t and it is very necessary if we are to put a stop to the killings and woundings with the weapons that most Australians are murdered or wounded with.

Hi Issy,

Welcome to the discussion, you're about to pull out that silly old chestnut of gunnie nonsense are you not, straight out of your foreign masters handbook, look at KNIVES fellas, nothing to see here when it comes to GUNS. That's because you have no defence of lax gun controls leading to murders in the community, so you try to deflect to something else unrelated. All murders are undesirable, and any we can prevent is a good thing.

Let me put it this way, if 99 people were murdered by knives, but only one by a gun. If its only possible to do something about the one, is that not preferable to doing nothing about the 100?

The cold dead hand of Charlton Heston and the American NRA will be proud of you my boy.

Is Mise

I was surprised to learn that the man who started the Shooter's Party, and died a a couple of days ago, was the father of the ABC'S Lefty Laura Tingle.