From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1318 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Tuesday, September 17 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1318 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Another shooting rampage, njc [Ange T ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:53:30 +1000 From: Ange T Subject: Re: Another shooting rampage, njc My former boyfriend now works in Washington as a photographer ... I woke to his images of the shooting scene on Facebook this morning and thought, "Oh, another shooting in the USA" and then went to have breakfast. Many Aussies (including myself) are in utter disbelief that these massacres are allowed to happen - time and time again - without the government able to implement tougher gun laws. No offence to the United States of America, but the situation regarding gun ownership over there is seriously insane. I'm proud to live in a country which has super-strict laws regarding firearms. The Australian government introduced a ban on automatic and semiautomatic weapons back in 1996 following a horrific massacre in Tasmania which left 35 dead. In the decade since the ban, the firearm homicide rate fell by 59 per cent. The latest shooting is very sad, but I think the true tragedy is that events like this seem to have no impact on US-politics. Ange in Oz (who, for some reason, felt like getting on a soapbox today) angetakats.com.au - ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:50:51 -0400 > From: jlhommedieu@insight.rr.com > Subject: Another shooting rampage, njc > > It happens so often that it barely registers anymore. Have we accepted > this as the new normal? > > Jim > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1317 > ****************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1318 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------