Comment on Perth mother and daughter shot dead by friend's ex-partner in double murder-suicide
Nath@aussie.zone 4 months ago
This is all kinds of horrible. How did he even have a gun?
While he certainly intended to commit violence against a woman, there’s a little nuance in this example. I don’t believe in this example that he’d have walked away and not shot the people in the house had it been a father and son.
wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone 4 months ago
So how do you get a gun in Perth?
Nath@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I don’t know in truth. From friends I know who shoot, they need to keep their hand guns at the range. They can’t take them home. Farmers can have rifles, but I’m having a hard time picturing a rifle being the weapon in this story.
RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Could of very easily been a rifle, this guy was a licensed owner, at best he kept everything locked up, ammo stored separately, keys hidden, at worst could of kept a loaded rifle next to his front door.
Nath@aussie.zone 4 months ago
It was confirmed this afternoon that he had two handguns on the scene and was licensed as a collector for them.
I am personally surprised, I didn’t know that was possible. Meanwhile, there’s a petition going around by gun owners saying they don’t want tighter gun laws in the wake of this. I wonder whether there is an opposing petition saying we don’t think it should be legal to have a handgun at home?