Comment: Fraser Anning's comments are not what matters. They're just the death twitch of a corpse
To blame Facebook is the same as blaming a paint company for graffiti or the inventors of paper for Mein Kampf.
Just a reminder - 50 people were murdered and a further 50 injured. Is it really the time to have a media squabble over matters that don't matter when most of the people we are supposed to inform are responding with compassion and empathy to this unspeakable tragedy? Now, more than 20 years later, we are sliding back. According to the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission there are about 250,000 long arm and 10,000 hand guns in the illicit market and around 2.9 million legal guns.
And so what are we doing to get these guns off the street? Not enough. In NSW they have Operation Talon - a statewide crackdown on illegal guns and a taskforce working on the market.A truck unloads prohibited firearms at a scrapmetal yard in 1997 after the Port Arthur massacre a year earlier.Last year, the Victorian government introduced Firearm Prohibition Orders - a powerful weapon against crooks who carry weapons.
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