NYTimes: Australia Shooting ‘Raises Questions About Gun Control’

By Cam Edwards

The headline is surprising for the New York Times: “Shooting In Sydney Raises Questions About Gun Control”. Sounds like something you might read here, or maybe the headline to a Stephen Gutowski story or a David Harsanyi column, right? The story itself, however, is exactly what you’d expect from the Times.

A gunman was shot dead by the police on Wednesday after an hourlong shooting spree across western Sydney that targeted a home and two police stations.

The police said the man, firing a shotgun in the middle of a busy suburb, wounded several officers, including one who suffered a head injury.

The shooting comes at a time of rising concern among gun control advocates in Australia who have been arguing for years that the country’s strict gun laws — passed after a mass shooting in 1996 — have been weakened over time by a small but powerful gun lobby.

Australia’s laws have gotten weaker over time? That’d be news to every Democrat running for president who invokes Australia’s gun ban and compensated confiscation program in reverent tones. Australia is the gold standard of gun control, and now Australia’s gun control advocates are complaining that it’s not working. It can’t be …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms