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As with all of these types of incidents, the nuts immediately start pushing their agenda (gun control). Australia, of all places, seems to be one of the first ones out of the starting blocks.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/080215/2/15ufv.html

Greens' Brown urges tougher gun control
Australian Greens leader Bob Brown has called for tougher handgun laws after a university shooting in the US.

Australia needs tougher controls to prevent a massacre-in-waiting, he warned.

He was commenting after five people, including the gunman, were reportedly killed and a total of 17 people were shot at a suburban Chicago university.

Senator Brown said early reports suggested a handgun and a long gun were used.

"I would appeal to this government to look at the very lax handgun laws we have in this country," Senator Brown told reporters in Canberra.

"It is another shooting massacre waiting to happen and we must not allow it in this country.

"We need the same restrictions on handguns, automatic handguns, that the Howard government implemented on long guns after the Port Arthur massacre (in Tasmania) in 1996."

Automatic handguns were effectively machine guns and should be withdrawn from public availability, Senator Brown said.

"I'm calling on the Rudd government to review the laws which allow some hundreds of thousands of such guns to be available in the community here in Australia, they don't need to be."

Senator Brown said some exceptions would apply to those who needed the guns, such as police.