Another multiple shooting -- in Aussie this time

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Bruce in West Oz

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Police appeal for man to give himself up
Police are appealing to a man believed to have shot three police officers in the Brisbane suburb of Chermside West to give himself up.

Police want to interview Nigel Dean Parodi, also known by the name Jessie James Ford, who is believed to be in the area still, and armed.

A gunman opened fire on three police officers, all stationed at Boondall, early this morning when they were called to investigate a neighbourhood dispute.

A female police officer was shot 12 times, but is expected to survive although she is still in a very serious condition.

Another police officer is also in a serious condition. The third is described as satisfactory.

Police have released the names of the officers injured in the shooting.

They are Constable Sharnelle Cole, 26, Constable Darryl Green, 27, and Sergeant Christopher Mulhall, 38.

Meanwhile, the police hunt for a gunman in Brisbane's north has moved to two schools.

Police are searching the grounds of Craigslea High School and Craigslea Primary School in suburban Chermside.

Heavily armed police have sealed off a large part of Chermside, searching for the man.

They are moving cautiously through suburban streets, and are concentrating on the schools and nearby reserve.

The man is believed to be armed with a pistol or rifle, and police are taking no chances.

They are wearing bullet-proof vests and are being accompanied by marksmen.

Residents are being warned to remain indoors.[/quote]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2000/05/item20000501100203_1.htm

My guess is a .22 rimfire, and a semi-auto to boot.

But hang on -- isn't this what our new gun laws were specifically said to be going to prevent????

B
 
Dang! And I thought all those laws were to prevent something like this? :SHOCK: :rolleyes:

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John/az
"When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
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Gosh, sounds like they are getting a lot of help from the citizenry!!
Whole neighborhoods told to stay indoors, how wonderful. And they are being so cautious (saving their own butts first???).
Appealing to a criminal to give himself up?? Oh don't they wish!!!
I have not simpathy for that government but pity for those poor people. One man armed with a pistol and they are parallized.
 
You can thank these b*****d liberal/socialists for removing every moral restraint from civil life and creating a generation of people volatile as nitroglycerin.
Folks is being driven nuts.
:mad:

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ALARM! ALARM! CIVILIZATION IS IN PERIL! THE BARBARIANS HAVE TAKEN THE GATES!
 
Hey, I thought that Australia was a crime free paradise now that everybody's turned in their guns? :confused:

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BOYCOTT SMITH AND WESSON!!!
Defend the Constitution from the foreign threat!!!!
 
This is patently impossible and absurd.

Couldn't have happened, they have gun control laws in Australia.

Wonder what guns the poor Aussies will be expected to turn in to atone for the sins of this vile creature.

On a more serious note, those officers are in my prayers. Keep us posted Bruce...

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"..but never ever Fear. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and Bullets."
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Tamara: Thanks for the note. They're in my thoughts, too.

Latest update from tonight's news:

All police officers are expected to make a full recovery.

The gun was a .22 rimfire.

The police pulled up in the car and were fired upon at point blank (approx. 20 shots) without warning or even seeing the BG. They were possibly saved by still being in the car.

Suspect is described as a "psychopath" and (of course) a "gun fanatic". :(

Predictably, the antis are already screaming for a total handgun ban.

B
 
Well - see the problem was the guy was named Nigel. I have never delt with a nice guy named Nigel... Or Girls named Niki for that matter.
 
Bruce this occuring a few miles from me !

Wonder if it is an Assault Pistol or a Fully Automatic rifle being used ?
I'm sure the papers will get the facts straight in the morning ;)

Lets see, Martin Bryant (Port Athur) was a nut case, the guy that shot his girl friend & bar maid was a nutcase & now this blokes a nut case ALL WITH ACCESS TO GUNS and ALL were known to be NUTTY & ARMED.....

What do the Authorities do?
Absofreakinlutely NOTHING !

WHY??????????? :(

I smell a RAT !

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I liked the potshot:

Wilson

Meanwhile, criminology professor at Bond university, Paul Wilson, says police cannot assume the man they are looking for is mentally ill.

He says if he is not found soon he is likely to commit further offences.

"Time and time again in the United States and elsewhere we've seen people who are obsessed with guns go out and kill people, obsessed to the point where they believe a gun is a way of solving their own personal problems," he said.

"This is a man who is quite capable of killing. This is a man who will not necessarily turn the gun on himself."
 
If you're obsessed with ANYTHING to the point that you'll take it in hand, go out in the street and start killing people with it because you think it will solve your problems, then you ARE mentally ill.

And if Wilson thinks otherwise, how'd he become a professor of ANYTHING?
 
Bruce, my prayers also to your countrymen.

I cannot believe, either, that this could happen in a country where they have pretty much taken up all the citizens' guns. It's as hard to believe as a 'shoot-em-up' in Washington DC, where they are also outlawed.

Good luck in the quest for re-establishing freedom.
 
Frankly, if he's as frustrated with the whole despotic government system there as some people are with our's here... you know, elitist classes, corrupt courts and politicians, all form, no function "for the little people" encroachment and revocation of inaliable rights... having been pushed into a corner I don't blame him for applying his last resort to express it.

He probably had no access to the ones he really wanted to take his frustrations out on, so to attack the agents or representatives of them was the next best thing.

Call me cold and callus, but those that enforce the "king's" orders are the enemy still.

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John/az
"When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
www.cphv.com
 
Munro Williams:

That is exactly the problem, the liberal pukes promote every kind of evil er "lifestyle" and then when there are no restraints or consequences they wonder why this BS happens. Not to mention the BS laws & deeds they institute & pull are enough to enrage any decent person 24-7.
 
scud,

I think that there's a sizable "Nurse Ratched" element which knows exactly what they're doing and sit back and cackle in fiendish glee at this sort of thing. The plan, I think, is to enable the morally corrupt, silence the morally sound, drive everyone insane as a result, and then wait for people to ask for Big Brother to save them.

The alternative is less paranoid, but still chilling: there's no conspiracy, just pathological evolution, 'cause these folks are too sick to see any further than the next two minutes.

Either way, the result is exactly the same, and we're the extremists because we live in the world of cause and effect, and understand that relationship.



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ALARM! ALARM! CIVILIZATION IS IN PERIL! THE BARBARIANS HAVE TAKEN THE GATES!
 
The gun was a .22 auto rifle,cut down and fitted with a silencer.
The offender was known to the police and had a record.He had been refused a firearms license on two occasions and is currently unlicensed.His gun is "illegal" because 1.It is an auto (Banned)2.It was fitted with a silencer (Illegal here).
He used low velocity ammo and the wound damage was lessened because of that.
The cops are all alive and recovering-they
are expected to fully recover.
At 9.30am our time the offender is still at large.
 
Munro Williams:

Absolutely, there is no doubt a conspiricy amongst the elite preying on the corruption/ignorance of the general population as you have said. It is infuriating that those who are not in the know but have absorbed the propaganda are so fanatically suportive of the same laws / measures that bring about the very lack of morality responsable for the violence they say they wish to escape.

You rightly said that this is a moral problem & the end of it lies in morality, or the lack thereof.
 
Hey Scud,
Save yourself some typing and just call me "Munro," BTW.

Check out
http://www.zolatimes.com

click on City Times Writers' Index, then click on Robert L. Kocher.

Start at the bottom, work your way to the top.

The author describes the progressively lunatic situation in the Western World, the USA particularly.

Probably the best stuff I've read on the subject in years.

Regards,
Munro

[This message has been edited by Munro Williams (edited May 01, 2000).]
 
UPDATE:

I thought it one helluva coincidence that this shooting took place in Queensland, a State which was moving towards reducing some of the more onerous and odious of the Aussie gun laws.

But that makes the following even more predictable.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Police ambush hardens Beattie resolve on gun laws
The Australian -- May 2 2000

Guns laws in Queensland would not be watered down or changed, Premier Peter Beattie pledged yesterday after three police officers were ambushed and shot while answering a call-out to a neighbourhood dispute in Brisbane.

Mr Beattie said yesterday he was reluctant to wade into the gun debate, but did move to reassure Queenslanders that the existing gun laws would remain unchanged. He agreed the shooting added weight to his committment to retain those controls.

"I feel, like all Queenslanders, quite upset by what's happened to the officers," Mr Beattie said. "But if Queenslanders are concerned about the gun laws, they need to
understand they will remain exactly as they are. We are not going to move away or water them down.".

It was revealed two weeks ago that the Queensland National Party wanted to scrap barriers to multiple firearm ownership and relax storage and licencing controls. But the plan is doomed to failure because the National's coalition partner, the Liberal Party, has refused to support any watering down of the current gun laws.

The National Coalition for Gun Control also yesterday called on the Prime Minister to ban semi-automatic handguns, in the same way that
semi-automatic rifles and shotguns had been banned.

"Australia has been warned and should act by doing everything it can to avoid another massacre," group spokeswoman Helen Gadsen said.

"One necessary step is to ban all high-powered weapons, including semi-automatic handguns."

Ms Gadsen called on Queensland Police Minister Tom Barton to place the
banning of semi-automatic handguns on the agenda for the June meeting of the Australian Police Ministers Council

But a spokesman for Mr Barton said all semi-automatic weapons were already on the restricted firearms list.

He said Mr Barton would consider any written requests to raise issues at the meeting.[/quote]

Let's see, "Ban all high-powered weapons, including semi-automatic handguns".

1. The police were shot with a .22 rimfire, using standard velocity ammo -- so what the hell constitutes "high-powered" to the antis?

2. It was an illegally-held semi-auto rifle, not a handgun.

3. It was cut down -- illegal.

4. It was silenced -- illegal.

5. The shooter was unlicensed -- illegal.

6. The firearm was not registered -- illegal.

What the hell difference will banning more guns from responsible ownership do to stop psycho jerk-offs like this bloke from getting a gun illegally? Zip, zero, zilch.

The frightening thing is that the Australian Police Ministers can, at their June meeting, ban any class/type of firearm they like WITHOUT the necessity for passing it through parliament for approval. They were given the legislative powers to do this after the Port Arthur incident.

B
 
It has nothing to do with stopping crime, it is to respond to public outcry.

They want to do that here - give cops the ability to ban types of guns (here, the BATF) - it's the gun banner's wet dream and the bill to do so has been floating around congress for years.

Am I the only person here who thinks John Howard is worthless?


Battler.
 
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