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Darwin shooting: Four people killed and another injured, 45yo alleged gunman arrested by police

ABC coverage: Darwin shooting: Four people killed and another injured, 45yo alleged gunman arrested by police

Some local flavour: Four people dead in mass Darwin shooting (The NT News is renowned for its... quirky... style.)

EDIT: Fixed broken link.

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  1. welly
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    I used to live in Darwin and while there are some strange characters there, it's a very personable and friendly city. I'm very surprised that such a thing has occurred. Darwin has, essentially,...

    I used to live in Darwin and while there are some strange characters there, it's a very personable and friendly city. I'm very surprised that such a thing has occurred.

    Darwin has, essentially, two seasons - the wet and the dry season. The wet season is when things tend to go a bit crazier as the heat and humidity is quite overbearing, but that has passed and the dry season has come around. It may sound irrelevant but there is a bit of tropical madness in the air when the wet season is really upon Darwiners and you'd expect if such an thing was going to happen then the wet season would be when that may happen (although you wouldn't expect this to happen at all in Darwin).

    I guess you can't account for crazy. I will have to get in touch with my old Darwin mates and see if they're all fine and well.

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  2. Algernon_Asimov
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    This appears to be Australia's deadliest public mass shooting event since the Port Arthur Massacre in 1992, 27 years ago. We have had a small number of shooting events with higher fatalities in...

    This appears to be Australia's deadliest public mass shooting event since the Port Arthur Massacre in 1992, 27 years ago.

    We have had a small number of shooting events with higher fatalities in the past 27 years, but they were all family murder-suicides, where the culprit shot members of their own family, and then shot themself. Most of our mass shootings since 1992 involved victims who knew their killer.

    As far as I can tell, this is only our third public mass shooting since 1992, and it's the deadliest of those three events.

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