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Originally Posted by Lexical [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have one word for you: propaganda. Sorry, I just skimmed through it a bit and found some of it hard to believe. I then googled for about 2 seconds and I was presented with contradictory evidence on a lot of their claims. They try to hide a lot of evidence and use extremely biased statistics. For example,



However, there is a very famous shooting that occurred in Australia in 2002 however.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University_shooting

Granted it wasn't on the scale as the Port Arthur massacre, but it still happened and still qualifies as a mass shooting. Mass shooting don't happen very often and have a very sporadic turn out and therefore can only be categorized as anomalous tragedies.

I am so glad you brought up Monash...not only because I defeated that argument before, I did so handily. You didn't read up on Monash, did you?

The very fact that only 2 people were killed and 5 injured is a statement against assault style weapons in itself. Suppose Xiang had assault-style weapons? The following wouldn't have happened.

When Xiang stopped shooting and moved to switch weapons, Lee Gordon-Brown, the injured lecturer, grabbed Xiang's hands as he reached into his jacket. Gordon-Brown and a student in the room, Alastair Boast, a trained wing chun practitioner, tackled him.[3][5][8][9] Bradley Thompson later entered the room and discovered five guns in holsters around Xiang's waist, including two Berettas, a Taurus, a .357 Magnum and a .38-caliber revolver, as well as two magazines from near his hip.

Gordon-Brown and Boast were assisted by a passing lecturer from a nearby room, Brett Inder, to restrain Xiang for thirty minutes until police arrived, while Thompson and university administrator Colin Thornby, provided first aid.