[Robert DeLong]

Chief Ford said the three teens had no motive other than to ''make a name for themselves'' and were on their way to another house to murder a second, unrelated victim when they were arrested.

Meanwhile, former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer says.

Mr Fischer said he was deeply angered by the latest tragedy and said turning our backs on America would help send a stern message about the need for tighter gun control.

Christopher Lane, 22, was randomly gunned down while jogging through the town of Duncan in Oklahoma on Friday afternoon local time.

Mr Fischer, who led Australia's gun control reforms alongside former prime minister John Howard in 1996, said choosing not to travel to the US would help build pressure on the US Congress to finally act.

"Tourists thinking of going to the USA should think twice,'' Mr Fischer said.

"This is the bitter harvest and legacy of the policies of the NRA that even blocked background checks for people buying guns at gunshows.

"People should take this into account before going to the United States.

"I am deeply angry about this because of the callous attitude of the three teenagers (but) it's a sign of the proliferation of guns on the ground in the USA.

I say: Stay home former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I guess Mr. Fischer would’ve felt better if Lane had been stabbed to death or run down by a car.

[madison10]

Wrong. Doubt the little angels had purchased the weapon at a gun show. Thugs don’t bother to register their guns, knives, etc.

[dfwgator]

Australian Gun Control Laws didn’t stop this from happening:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)

[Tennessee Nana]

This is the bitter harvest and legacy of the policies of the NRA that even blocked background checks for people buying guns at gunshows.
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Good grief, Timmy

you dont think that 15,16,17 yo kids brought that gun at a gun show do you ???

Eh, dumb Aussie ???

[GeronL]

Tim-May!!

[mrsmel]

Another ignorant person spouting off while ignoring the statistics of who commits the overwhelming majority of murders by firearms and other methods, such as packs of "youths" beating lone, elderly, weak, or juvenile victims into comas or death. If he, and the other ignorant spouters really cared more about stopping the violence than their self-serving agenda, they would bother to inform themselves of the murder statistics instead of having knee-jerk reactions to ownership of firearms by law-abiding citizens. But if they did that, they'd have to face and admit some unpleasantly politically incorrect truths. They'd rather take the one means of potential victims to equalise the odds against the predators than to face and admit the unpalatable, to them, truth.

I'm so sick of these people trying to disarm law-abiding, peaceful, innocent citizens of their one means of viable self-protection instead of putting the blame for the high murder rates where they belong.