#gunlaws — Public Fediverse posts
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Sobering and very sad. 👇😔
6 years, 6 major #shootings in #Thailand
"A soldier opened fire in Nakhon Ratchasima on Feb 8, 2020, w te attack extending to Terminal 21 shopping centre. Te attack left 30 people dead & more than 50 injured before security forces killed te #gunman.. A former police officer attacked a childcare centre in Nong Bua Lamphu on Oct 6, 2022. Te attack & related #violence killed 38 people, making it one of 🇹🇭’s #deadliest shooting incidents" #GunLaws 🧐
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#Georgia Teen, Colt Gray, now 16, Is Sentenced to Life Without Parole for Deadly #SchoolShooting
The boy pleaded guilty to 55 charges stemming from the 2024 attack at #ApalacheeHighSchool in Winder, GA, that killed 2 students & 2 teachers.
#law #GunLaws #GunControl #MassShooting #EnoughIsEnough
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/colt-gray-sentenced-apalachee-high-school-shooting.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
@johnquiggin
I sympathise with your frustration John (not just about gun laws) and agree that while #Labor has moved its legisaltive agenda through parliament, there is little in it to establish any kind of ‘legacy’ for the #AlboPM govt. Not least of which is in Firearms legislation. Apart from knee-jerk useless quick-fixes around the edges, especially from States and Territories.From my perspective, any Federal ‘umbrella’ legislation to tighten up gun laws in Australia will run afoul of States and Territories govts. Case in point: though agreed by all jurisdictions, the Federal Gun Register proposed by the Howard govt is still to be delivered (and from an IT perspective, this is a no brainer). How then can any PM even think national gun laws are possible? Imagine the shit fight that would ensue were legislation to be tabled in Canberra to licence and control all 3D printers.
On the contrary, meaningful gun control law reforms must be undertaken by the States and Territories with the Feds providing guidance and funding — because funding is the elephant in the room, for all enforcement services. Not just those policing legal gun ownership, but border control, criminal intelligence, and gang taskforces, and then some. To put it into perspective, how long has our society been waiting to get gambling adds banned?
Any changes to gun laws/processes/regulations require cooperation and coordination at all levels of government together with sustained budgets adequate to the tasks. In our dreams…
I believe the idea that terrorist massacres, DV and Gang murders, can be prevented just by reducing the number of guns that can be legally owned is laughable. Our gun laws may be in need of reform to keep them relevant in changing circumstances like any other law, but if you cannot effectively police them no legislation is going to make any impact at all. Just as no amount of policing is going to prevent illegal speeding on our roads or drunk driving — the later a loaded gun. In the end, society as a whole (not a tyranny of the majority) must want more policing and more effective gun controls if not an outright ban. NSW is, from memory, the State with most (legal) firearms and most por-gun voters. So, NSW is where it must start. But while Minns is in control you can forget it because he is out of his depth on this one IMO.
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Teenager pleads guilty to all 55 counts in 2024 fatal #shooting at #ApalacheeHighSchool in #Georgia
Colt Gray, 16, entered the plea Friday without having reached a deal with prosecutors. He had previously pleaded not guilty to charges in the Sept 4, 2024, shooting that killed 2 students & 2 teachers, & left several others wounded, at the high school about 45 miles (73 km) northeast of Atlanta.
#law #GunLaws #GunControl #SchoolShooting #EnoughIsEnough #MentalHealth
https://apnews.com/article/apalachee-georgia-school-shooting-colt-gray-8be7ba5efae9cce53e0f8c61253a5f1b -
#SecretService shoots person near #WhiteHouse, #bystander also shot, law enforcement official says
Both individuals were said to be in critical condition, according to an official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
#shooting #GunControl #GunLaws #law
https://apnews.com/article/white-house-gunshots-lockdown-secret-service-trump-204c429ab3888b3d0921cf724e0c0474 -
#SecretService shoots person near #WhiteHouse, #bystander also shot, law enforcement official says
Both individuals were said to be in critical condition, according to an official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
#shooting #GunControl #GunLaws #law
https://apnews.com/article/white-house-gunshots-lockdown-secret-service-trump-204c429ab3888b3d0921cf724e0c0474 -
#SecretService shoots person near #WhiteHouse, #bystander also shot, law enforcement official says
Both individuals were said to be in critical condition, according to an official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
#shooting #GunControl #GunLaws #law
https://apnews.com/article/white-house-gunshots-lockdown-secret-service-trump-204c429ab3888b3d0921cf724e0c0474 -
#SecretService shoots person near #WhiteHouse, #bystander also shot, law enforcement official says
Both individuals were said to be in critical condition, according to an official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
#shooting #GunControl #GunLaws #law
https://apnews.com/article/white-house-gunshots-lockdown-secret-service-trump-204c429ab3888b3d0921cf724e0c0474 -
#SecretService shoots person near #WhiteHouse, #bystander also shot, law enforcement official says
Both individuals were said to be in critical condition, according to an official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
#shooting #GunControl #GunLaws #law
https://apnews.com/article/white-house-gunshots-lockdown-secret-service-trump-204c429ab3888b3d0921cf724e0c0474 -
Tearing down the school is symbolic... regulating #AI, tightening #gunlaws would have more of an impact, eh. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/08/tumbler-ridge-canada-school-shooting #cdnpoli #polcan #schoolshootings
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Chris Hosey, the director of the #Georgia Bureau of Investigation [#GBI], said the charges stem from Gray “knowingly allowing” his son to possess a weapon.
Gray is in custody & the charges are “directly connected with the actions of his son & allowing him to possess a weapon,” Hosey said.
#accountability #law #GunLaws #ApalacheeHighSchool #Winder #GunControl #RedFlagLaws #UniversalBackgroundChecks #EnoughIsEnough
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Records from an eviction the previous year show that #ColinGray owned several weapons, including an #AR15, the type of firearm that ofcls say was used in the #SchoolShooting on Wed morning at #ApalacheeHighSchool in #Winder, #Georgia.
Mr. Gray said he wanted to get his son, Colt, now 14, interested in the outdoors, & away from video games…. The son, then 13, had recently shot his first deer, & his father kept a photo on his phone of the animal’s blood smeared on the boy’s cheeks…
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“There are too many people who are able to access #guns that shouldn’t be able to,” President #Biden said in his first remarks about the #Georgia #SchoolShooting. “Let’s require safe storage of firearms. I know I have mine locked up,” he said, adding, “You've got to hold #parents accountable if they let their child have access to these guns.”
#accountability #law #GunLaws #ApalacheeHighSchool #Winder #GunControl #RedFlagLaws #UniversalBackgroundChecks #EnoughIsEnough
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Father of Teen Suspect Charged in #Georgia #SchoolShooting
The father, Colin Gray, was charged with 4 counts of involuntary #manslaughter, 2 counts of second-degree #murder & 8 counts of #cruelty to #children, the authorities said.
#law #GunLaws #ApalacheeHighSchool #Winder #GunControl #RedFlagLaws #UniversalBackgroundChecks #EnoughIsEnough
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/05/us/georgia-school-shooting/7021d242-26af-55cb-959e-f74ad394eae6?smid=url-share
