The worse mass shooting in US history.  But I haven’t heard a single person speak of gun safety.  Too busy talking about international possible links.  Please say — this may be a hate crime against the gay community made much worse because of the availability of high capacity semi automatic rifles.  Over 103 people killed or injured in a brief period of time.  The rifle use was the same one used at San Bernardino and Sandy Hook..

Twenty years ago in Australia, a semi automatic rifle was used to injure 23 people  and kill 35.  The story of changing gun laws and massive gun buybacks is well known and there was a significant change in gun tragedies.  To quote former Conservative Australian Prime Minister John Howard

"The national gun control laws enacted after the Port Arthur massacre remain one of the major social reforms ... of [my] government," he added. "All the credible research both in Australia and elsewhere shows that the gun control laws have markedly reduced gun-related deaths."

I know there are many differences in our countries, but we have controlled high capacity rifles in the past, we need to do that again.

​We are seeing these rifles become even more deadly as gun manufacturers compete to create the biggest magazine. I researched high capacity magazines for the AR-15 and found an article from 2011 talking about the new slick 60 and 100 round magazines just made available to the public.  WHY???  All the better to kill you my dear...

Mothers fathers, lovers, friends, sisters, brothers, children etc. etc.  lets get together and stop this.  So many people are working on it.  We need our leaders to follow John Howard and find a way to implement the safety measures we so desire.  It is an election year.  Let’s demand common sense controls.

Quick catch up — NPR just talked briefly about gun safety issues.  Thank you public radio!