Shootings

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by motto

After WW1 & 2 hundreds of thousands of men trained in the use of firearms returned to civilian life with easy access to guns but shootings were a rarity. In Australia these shooting rampages started happening around the time that the generation that fought WW2 was handing over the reins to the following generation.

David, you mean shootings of white people were a rarity. Australian ex-servicemen shot thousands of Aboriginal men, women and children over the years, sometimes several hundred at a time, ably assisted by police of course. I suspect that would qualify as a "shooting rampage".