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by yesenadam 1490 days ago
> 2014 Sydney hostage crisis

A mass shooting in which, by the sound of it, a gunman killed one hostage? Then when "police...stormed the café ...[a hostage] was killed by a police bullet ricochet. ..[The gunman] was also killed. Three other hostages and a police officer were injured by police gunfire"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindt_Cafe_siege

In the 2002 Monash shooting, 2 people died. Seems like there hasn't been a mass shooting of >5 people in Australia since Port Arthur (1996), except in 2018 when a grandfather in WA killed his whole family including himself (7 people).

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The GP link was a terrible source for their point.

If you look at the numbers there over the years for actual shootings it's basically a bad weekend in Chicago.