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	Name:	phil -
	Subject:	Archie you are the weakest link.
	Date:	3/20/2019 3:23:07 PM

The point is that bad people are going to do bad things regardless of the "gun" but lets also look back at the historical data when only one side had a gun with 200 killed, up to 300, 300-1000 - just imagine how different those numbers might look if those aboriginal tribes had guns, instead of rocks and sticks.

Sorry, but the reason they were massacred is becuase they were unable to defend themselves again better armed people. If you like Austrailias gun laws, have you considered moving (to quote JohnDough)?

ape Grim massacre	10 February 1828	Cape Grim, Van Diemen's Land(Tasmania)	30	Unknown	Massacre of Indigenous Australians by four shepherds.
Convincing Ground massacre	1833–34	Portland, Victoria	60–200	Unknown	Massacre of Indigenous Australians after a heated dispute between whalers and Aboriginal tribes.
Pinjarra massacre	28 October 1834	Pinjarra, Western Australia	14–40		Massacre by British colonists led by Governor Stirling against the Pinjarup people.
Waterloo Creek massacre/Slaughterhouse Creek massacre	January 1838	Waterloo Creek, NSW	40–70	Unknown	Massacre of Indigenous Australians as part of a clash between mounted police and Indigenous Australians.
Hospital Creek Massacre	1859	Brewarrina, NSW	300-400	Unknown	Massacre of Indigenous Australians. A stockman at Walcha Hut on the Lawson run was warned by Aborigines to release an Aboriginal woman. He refused, and both he and the woman were killed. In retaliation, the settlers shot a large number of Aboriginal men, women and children in what became known as the Hospital Creek Massacre.
Myall Creek massacre	10 June 1838	Myall Creek, NSW	27-30	Unknown	Massacre of Indigenous Australians. The attack was racially motivated, and subsequently the colonists who carried out the attack were hanged.
Murdering Gully massacre	1839	Mount Emu Creek, near Camperdown, Victoria	35–40	Unknown	Massacre of Indigenous Australians undertaken by Frederick Taylor apparently in retaliation to Aborigines having killed the colonists' sheep.
Campaspe Plains massacre	June 1839	Campaspe Creek, Central Victoria	up to 40	Unknown	Massacre of Indigenous Australians led by commander Charles Hutton as a reprisal raid against Aboriginal resistance to the invasion and occupation of their lands.
Shipwreck survivors of the Maria massacred	1840	Coorong, SA	25		Ship travelling from Port Adelaide to Hobart was shipwrecked on the SE coast of South Australia, with all surviving the wreck. The survivors were being guided to safety by the local Narrindjeri people, but were massacred.
Gippsland massacres	1840-1850	Gippsland, VIC	300-1000	Unknown	Massacre of Indigenous Australians, combined with the introduction of diseases by the British Colonists which also contributed to the heavy losses of the Aborigines. The technical superiority of the Europeans' weapons gave the Europeans an absolute advantage over the Aborigines and, as a result, very few white settlers died during the course of the massacres.
Cullin-la-ringo massacre	17 October 1861	Central Queensland	19	0	Massacre of newly-arrived white settlers by Indigenous Australians. In response, "sixty or seventy" Aborigines were massacred by a vigilante party of eleven heavily armed white settlers accompanied by two Aboriginal trackers.^[1]
Flying Foam massacre	February–May 1868	Flying Foam Passage, WA	20–150	Unknown	Massacre of Indigenous Australians after a series of confrontations between white settlers and Aboriginal people near the Flying Foam Passage.
Palmer massacre	August 1878	Palmer River, Queensland	20–150	Unknown	Massacre by Cantonese and Pekinese against each other.^[2]
Ching family murders	16 November 1911	Alligator Creek, Mackay, Queensland	6	0	George David Silva murdered six members of the Ching family by shooting and bashing. Silva was hanged at Boggo Road Gaol in Brisbane on 10 June 1912.
Battle of Broken Hill	1 January 1915	Broken Hill, New South Wales	4	7	Spree shooting by two Ghans gunmen - Terror attack - by modern definition.^[3]^{[better source needed]}
Mowla Bluff massacre	1916	Kimberley, Western Australia	Up to 12^[4]	0	Massacre of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal Men, women and children were rounded up and subsequently shot and their bodies burned.
Forrest River massacre	May–July 1926	Kimberley Region of Western Australia	11	Unknown	Massacre of Indigenous Australians by law enforcement.
Coniston massacre	14 August – 18 October 1928	Coniston, Northern Territory	60–170	Unknown	Probably the last known massacre of Indigenous Australians.
Boulder & Kalgoorlie bombings	1 February 1942	Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia	14	15	Bombing of a boarding house containing 30 people in Boulder, Western Australia.^[5]
Hope Forest massacre	6 September 1971	Hope Forest, SA	10	0	Rampage killing by Clifford Bartholomew, who shot dead ten members of his family.^[6]
Whiskey Au Go Go fire	8 March 1973	Fortitude Valley, Queensland	15	Unknown	Arson attack that killed 15 people and injured many more at a nightclub.
Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing	13 February 1978	Sydney, New South Wales	5	11	Terrorism, bomb attack on hotel where world leaders were staying. 2 garbage collectors and 1 police officer died.
Party Shooting Spree	18 April 1982	Canley Heights, New South Wales	2	8	Peter Sinfield, his brother Derek Sinfield along with friend Adrian John Mills, armed variously but Peter Sinfield with a rifle, gatecrashed a party and fired several shots that killed two people and severely wounding eight others.
Campsie murders	24 September 1981	Campsie, New South Wales	5	0	Rampage killing by Fouad Daoud, who shot dead five members of his family before killing himself.^[7]
Inland Motel murders	18 August 1983	Uluru, Northern Territory	5	16	Vehicular attack by Douglas Crabbe, who drove a truck into the bar of the Inland Motel after being refused service.^[8]
Wahroonga murders	1 June 1984	Wahroonga, New South Wales	5	0	Rampage killing by John Brandon, who shot dead five members of his family before killing himself.^[9]
Milperra massacre	2 September 1984	Milperra, New South Wales	7	28	Shootout between two rival motorcycle gangs. One bystander was among those killed in the incident.
Pymble shooting	23 January 1987	Pymble, NSW	4		Richard Maddrell went to the family home of his former girlfriend, shot her and 3 others.^[10]
Top End Shootings	June 1987	Top End, Northern Territory	5		Spree killing by Joseph Schwab over a five-day period. Shot dead by police.
Hoddle Street massacre	9 August 1987	Clifton Hill, Victoria	7	19	A spree shooting by Julian Knight.
Canley Vale Huynh family murders	10 October 1987	Canley Vale, New South Wales	5		Rampage killing by John Tran, who shot dead five members of a family.
Queen Street massacre	8 December 1987	Melbourne, Victoria	8	5	A spree shooting/murder–suicide by Frank Vitkovic.
Oenpelli shootings	25 September 1988	Oenpelli, Northern Territory	5	0	Rampage killing by Dennis Rostron, shooting six members of his family at a remote Arnhem Land outstation in Oenpelli.^[11]^[12]
Surry Hills shootings	30 August 1990	Surry Hills, New South Wales	5	7	A spree shooting by Paul Anthony Evers who killed five people and injured seven with a 12 gauge pump-action shotgun at a public housing precinct in Surry Hills before surrendering to police.^[13]
Strathfield massacre	17 August 1991	Strathfield, New South Wales	7	6	A spree shooting/murder–suicide by Wade Frankum.
Central Coast massacre	27 October 1992	Terrigal, New South Wales	6	1	A spree shooting by Malcolm George Baker.
Greenough Family Massacre	21 February 1993	Greenough, Western Australia	4	0	William Patrick Mitchell (Bill Mitchell) murdered Karen MacKenzie and her three children with an axe at their remote rural property in Greenough, Western Australia.
1993 Cangai siege	March 1993	Cangai, New South Wales	5	0	Leonard Leabeater, Robert Steele and Raymond Bassett went on a nine-day rampage resulting in their taking hostages in a siege in a farmhouse at Hanging Rock Station in Cangai.
Hillcrest murders	25 January 1996	Hillcrest, Queensland	6	0	Rampage killing by Peter May, who shot dead six members of his family before killing himself.^[14]