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Gun Policy News, 17 March 2019

Australia,New Zealand

17 March 2019

Sydney Morning Herald, Opinion

Australians over 40 can identify with the grief gripping New Zealand just now. We felt it in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, when 35 people were murdered and dozens more wounded at the popular holiday location in Tasmania. Just as in Christchurch, the Port Arthur killer was a 28-year-old loner with no criminal record armed with semi-automatic weapons. A global outpouring of grief has come after at least 49 people were killed in a Christchurch mosque... (GunPolicy.org)

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