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This diff, while very specific, has no citations associated with it, Google finds nothing and [1] says that Boast was actually a kung fu student. So that info is being removed. Thayvian 01:39, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
It is accepted that multiple victim shootings are contributed to by media reporting, in the same way as reporting triggers imitative suicides. In the case of this shooting, it occurred at the height of weeks of hysterical reporting of the Washington snipers. It was also committed with handguns, after the 1996 intervention created a new paradigm that 'semi-automatic rifles' were no longer an option for committing massacres in Australia and anti-gun activists had started speaking out against handgun availability. I propose to add the information about the timing to this article. References include:
Cantor C. 2001 Civil Massacres Ethological Perspectives. The ASCAP Bulletin Vol 2 No 1. 29-31.
Cantor, Mullen and Alpers, 2000 Mass homicide: the civil massacre. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 28:1:55-63
Cialdini, Robert 2001. Influence: Science and Practice 4th Ed. Allyn and Bacon, pp121-130.
Cramer, C 1993. Ethical problems of mass murder coverage in the mass media. Journal of Mass Media Ethics 9.
Lovibond J. 1996. ‘Hobart gun death related to TV show’, Hobart Mercury, 21/05/1996, Ed: 1, Pg: 2, 511 words. Newstext
Mullen, Paul quoted in Hannon K 1997, “Copycats to Blame for Massacres Says Expert”, Courier Mail, 4/3/1997
Phillips, D. P. 1980. Airplane accidents, murder, and the mass media: Towards a theory of imitation and suggestion. Social Forces, 58, 1001-1024.
ChrisPer ( talk) 01:58, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
There needs to be a clearer outline and far more in-depth research into how exactly a financially-unstable, foreign national who had difficulty speaking English and little familiarity with Australian culture or law, living on a student visa in Australia, a nation with some of the strictest firearms legislation in the world, managed to acquire a private arsenal of handguns and ammunition in a mere 6 months that even long-term, veteran firearm owners/professional shooting competitors in Australia would be hard pressed to match. The process of acquiring a firearms licence in Australia is long and convoluted, and it’s certainly not intended to be easy, nor designed to encourage you to go through with it.
Several of the requirements for handgun ownership in Australia, Xiang did not meet at the time of acquiring his firearms licence:
There are other problems with Xiang complying with licensing requirements that logically would have been difficult for him, by virtue of being a foreign student with limited funds and a limited understanding of the country he resided in and its laws, such as: storing firearms and ammunition in an “approved” gun safe installed in your premises (very difficult to do if you don't own your own home), subjecting your gun safes to regular police inspection, competing in a recognised competition at least 6 times a year for your primary handgun category and for any other handguns licensed for a different type of competition you must compete in a recognised competition at least 4 times a year and finally the cost of the licensing, approval and firearms purchasing process (firearms are incredibly expensive in Australia).
There are very scant details about this man's fairly fast and fluid progression into the world of competitive shooting and firearms ownership in Australia, which is a very arduous and expensive process even for Australia citizens with legitimate reasons for owning handguns and long-arms and yet somehow a mentally unstable immigrant seems to have skirted this complicated process with no trouble at all and was fast-tracked for the ownership of not just any run-of-the-mil handguns, but 2 large-calibre revolvers and 4 semi-automatic handguns (semi-automatic weapons are viewed with extreme hesitation and skepticism by Australian authorities and are more difficult to acquire than any other category of firearm in Australia).
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This diff, while very specific, has no citations associated with it, Google finds nothing and [1] says that Boast was actually a kung fu student. So that info is being removed. Thayvian 01:39, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
It is accepted that multiple victim shootings are contributed to by media reporting, in the same way as reporting triggers imitative suicides. In the case of this shooting, it occurred at the height of weeks of hysterical reporting of the Washington snipers. It was also committed with handguns, after the 1996 intervention created a new paradigm that 'semi-automatic rifles' were no longer an option for committing massacres in Australia and anti-gun activists had started speaking out against handgun availability. I propose to add the information about the timing to this article. References include:
Cantor C. 2001 Civil Massacres Ethological Perspectives. The ASCAP Bulletin Vol 2 No 1. 29-31.
Cantor, Mullen and Alpers, 2000 Mass homicide: the civil massacre. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 28:1:55-63
Cialdini, Robert 2001. Influence: Science and Practice 4th Ed. Allyn and Bacon, pp121-130.
Cramer, C 1993. Ethical problems of mass murder coverage in the mass media. Journal of Mass Media Ethics 9.
Lovibond J. 1996. ‘Hobart gun death related to TV show’, Hobart Mercury, 21/05/1996, Ed: 1, Pg: 2, 511 words. Newstext
Mullen, Paul quoted in Hannon K 1997, “Copycats to Blame for Massacres Says Expert”, Courier Mail, 4/3/1997
Phillips, D. P. 1980. Airplane accidents, murder, and the mass media: Towards a theory of imitation and suggestion. Social Forces, 58, 1001-1024.
ChrisPer ( talk) 01:58, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
There needs to be a clearer outline and far more in-depth research into how exactly a financially-unstable, foreign national who had difficulty speaking English and little familiarity with Australian culture or law, living on a student visa in Australia, a nation with some of the strictest firearms legislation in the world, managed to acquire a private arsenal of handguns and ammunition in a mere 6 months that even long-term, veteran firearm owners/professional shooting competitors in Australia would be hard pressed to match. The process of acquiring a firearms licence in Australia is long and convoluted, and it’s certainly not intended to be easy, nor designed to encourage you to go through with it.
Several of the requirements for handgun ownership in Australia, Xiang did not meet at the time of acquiring his firearms licence:
There are other problems with Xiang complying with licensing requirements that logically would have been difficult for him, by virtue of being a foreign student with limited funds and a limited understanding of the country he resided in and its laws, such as: storing firearms and ammunition in an “approved” gun safe installed in your premises (very difficult to do if you don't own your own home), subjecting your gun safes to regular police inspection, competing in a recognised competition at least 6 times a year for your primary handgun category and for any other handguns licensed for a different type of competition you must compete in a recognised competition at least 4 times a year and finally the cost of the licensing, approval and firearms purchasing process (firearms are incredibly expensive in Australia).
There are very scant details about this man's fairly fast and fluid progression into the world of competitive shooting and firearms ownership in Australia, which is a very arduous and expensive process even for Australia citizens with legitimate reasons for owning handguns and long-arms and yet somehow a mentally unstable immigrant seems to have skirted this complicated process with no trouble at all and was fast-tracked for the ownership of not just any run-of-the-mil handguns, but 2 large-calibre revolvers and 4 semi-automatic handguns (semi-automatic weapons are viewed with extreme hesitation and skepticism by Australian authorities and are more difficult to acquire than any other category of firearm in Australia).
Gamer112 ( talk) 10:36, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
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