EXPOSED: Why Australia’s “great gun laws” are Fake News

At 5.50pm on Tuesday the 4th of June, 2019, a man who was well known to Police, fresh out of jail with a monitoring bracelet, obtains an ILLEGAL firearm and goes on a mass shooting rampage that left at least 4 people dead in Darwin, Australia.

Whenever the gun debate comes up in the United States, usually following a horrific event, Politicians, commentators and anti-gun activists point to Australia as the place on the planet that got it right.

Following the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, the then Prime Minister, John Howard, wasted no time in introducing sweeping new laws including confiscating over 650K guns through the “National Firearms Buyback Program”.

John Howard has always been praised for Australia’s so-called successful gun control.

Butoutrage at the Trump Administration’s separation of people claiming to be under 18 from accused illegal border crossers claiming to be their parents. While focusing his attention on separated children 2,000 miles away, he was defeated by Ayanna S. Pressley, a woman roughly 5 miles away who had previously been separated from her father by a divorce lawsuit (boston.com). (also, Wikipedia says she lives with a stepdaughter, i.e., a child who is separated from at least one parent much of the time. So Capuano overloooked two local children separated from parents!) Pressley’s Boston City Council web page:

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