David Leyonhjelm (NSW, Liberal Democratic Party) Share this | Hansard source

The study mentioned in this motion is probably the most dishonest paper ever on the subject of gun control. The rest of the world uses the FBI definition of a mass shooting to mean 'four victims, not including the shooter' and they don't necessarily have to be all dead. By that definition, Australia has had several mass shootings since 1996. The paper's authors, Philip Alpers and Simon Chapman, are obsessive anti-gun nuts. They changed the definition to 'five victims, not including the shooter' so that they could make the claim that there had been no mass shootings in the 20 years since the NFA was implemented. It's wrong and it's dishonest.

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