This crap has been plastered all over our news media today. "America's shame" seems to be the popular comment of the day 
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AUSTRALIA has got gun control right, says US President Barack Obama, while his own nation “should be ashamed” at its inability to address a surge in school shootings.
The president vented frustration and disbelief that there was no momentum for gun reform in the wake of a recent spate of mass shootings, in impassioned remarks likely to touch off a new row with the powerful firearms lobby.
“Our levels of gun violence are off the charts, there is no advanced developed country on earth that would put up with this,” the president said.
President Obama made the comments during a live question and answers session on the Tumblr web forum just hours after a gunman shot and killed a student at an Oregon High School in the latest shooting incident.
He pointed out that Australia hadn’t had a single mass shooting since the crackdown on gun violence in the wake of 1996’s Port Arthur shootings.
“We are the only developed country on earth where this happens, and it happens now once a week,” he said.
President Obama revealed that the “biggest frustration’’ of his presidency so far was that Washington had not even taken “basic steps’’ to keep guns out of the hands of people that can do “unbelievable damage.’’
He said he respected the gun rights enshrined in the US Constitution, but said the idea that it was impossible to introduce background checks for gun buyers made no sense.
“The country has to do some soul-searching about this. This is becoming the norm, and we take it for granted in ways that, as a parent, are terrifying to me,’’ Obama said.
The president said he had found it “stunning’’ that new guns laws could not pass after the horror of the Newtown massacre in Connecticut which traumatised the country.
He said that the only way that the current status quo would change would be if public opinion influenced lawmakers, who he said were “terrified’’ of the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) lobby group.
He also took aim at the argument often advanced by gun rights groups, that the real root of mass shootings was the lack of widespread mental health treatment.
“The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people,” Obama said.
“It’s not the only country that has psychosis and yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than any place else.’’
“What’s the difference? The difference is that these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses.’’
Obama tried and failed to introduce some moderate restrictions on the purchases of certain types of guns after the Newtown massacre in which 20 children were killed along with six adults in December 2012.
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Australian gun control is not about not letting anyone have guns, there is still plenty of guns in Australia, it's about making high powered automatic and semi automatic assault rifles illegal
the gun laws in America are downright disgusting!!! Guns are a deadly weapon for goodness' sake and I can never see, for the life of me, why people think it should be "their right" to be able to own any weapon!!!
Good on him, Less Guns has to be a good thing,Oz is better place for it
People like this are the reason this country has turned to sh!t.What is WRONG with you people who say we are entitled to guns to defend ourselves
There is absolutely no practical requirement to own an assault rifle other than to wage a war!
That pesky 2nd amendment will never see them surrender their right to arms
We Aussies sit back and think your all stupid in the USA. I feel sorry not only for the kids that lose their life but for the parents that don't want gun control and then lose their kids....
