More details of the days and moments leading up to shots being fired at a Two Rocks school have been revealed in court as the accused shooter was released on bail.
The Stay Safe book,given to primary school students in the Dallas area,advises pupils to “run,hide,fight” if a gunman enters their building.
WA Premier Mark McGowan has vowed to strengthen the state’s gun laws after meeting with the principal of the Perth school at the centre of a shooting incident on Wednesday.
Among those killed was Phil Dowdell,a high school senior who planned to play college football,and who was celebrating his sister’s 16th birthday.
“We called for you all to ban assault weapons,and you respond with an assault on democracy,” said representative Justin Jones before being kicked out of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
“Twenty Western Australians were killed by firearms last year. Police believe mental health may have been a factor in almost 50 per cent of those deaths,” Police Minister Paul Papalia said.
The 25-year-old was shot dead overnight at his home in Heddon Greta,about 20 kilometres east of Cessnock,in what police believe was a targeted attack.
The NFL team’s partnership with Black Rifle Coffee was revealed a day after seven people died in Chicago,prompting White Sox closer Liam Hendriks to call for change.
If Australia had the same population as the US,at our current gunshot homicide rate there would be 444 deaths a year. In the US it is around 20,000.
As the shooting at Robb Elementary unfolded,trained police officers fell back and cowered,while a killer with a weapon of mass destruction went about his malevolent business for 80 minutes. This is American gun logic,taken to the extreme.
Why do mass shootings keep happening in the US? What does the Second Amendment mean? Who are the NRA? And where is gun regulation reform at today?