We often hear about the Australian gun ban in 1996 being a huge success 20 years later not so much. A three part series by the oldest news service in the land down under, good fodder for letters to our current leaders.
I find it interesting the gangs shoot to wound rather than kill, dead people can't pay debts.
A brazen new breed of criminals is taking up arms at unprecedented rates and they aren't afraid to use them.
Read The Age's investigation into how Melbourne became a gun city.
Part one
https://www.theage.com.au/interactiv...city/day1.html
Part two
https://www.theage.com.au/interactiv...city/day2.html
Part three
https://www.theage.com.au/interactiv...city/day3.html