The Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (SSAA) has continually promoted gun
law policies that would make Australian society similar to the private gun
mayhem society called the USA. Gun Control Australia condemn’s these sickening
policies and the groups that hold on to them such as the SSAA. No organisation
in Australia is working harder to destroy our successful gun laws than the SSAA;
thus it has become an enormous danger to the future of our society. We call on
the Gillard government to break all ties with this ruthlessly selfish organisation
that has such close associations with America’s National Rifle Association
(NRA) and the international gun and ammunition trade.

A week ago major gun control groups in America released this statement concerning
the recent mass gun murder in Colorado.

Over 30 National, State, and Local Gun Violence Prevention Groups Issue Statement
on Colorado Mass Shooting

Washington, DC—Following today’s mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater leaving at least 12 dead and dozens wounded, national, state, and local gun violence prevention organizations (see list at bottom) issued the following joint statement:

“Our deepest sympathies go to all those affected by this terrible tragedy.

 “Today’s mass shooting is the price paid in death, pain, and suffering by families and
communities for an out-of-control, militarized gun industry that prides itself
on selling increasingly lethal products to virtually anyone with little concern
for the inevitable tragedies that result. In America today—where virtually
anyone with a credit card and a grudge can outfit their own personal army—mass
shootings are as predictable as they are tragic. Just as predictably, those who
celebrate this lethal shift—the NRA and its gun industry partners—remain mute
when families and communities suffer the consequences. And when attention
fades, they’ll once again resume their lethal trade, unless we stand together
as Americans to stop them.

 “Gun violence is preventable. It is long past time for policymakers at all levels to
act. Americans have a right to feel safe in their communities—in schools,
restaurants, movie theaters, and all public places. Using the cynical desires
of the gun lobby and firearms industry as an excuse for inaction is shameful.”

 Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and its national network of chapters

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence

States United to Prevent Gun Violence

Violence Policy Center

Arizonans for Gun Safety

Women Against Gun Violence (California)

Ceasefire Maryland

Ceasefire New Jersey (a project of the Coalition for Peace Action)

Ceasefire Oregon

CeaseFirePA

Colorado Ceasefire

Connecticut Against Gun Violence Education Fund

Georgians for Gun Safety

GunFreeKids.org

Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah

Hawaii Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence

Hoosiers Concerned About Gun Violence

Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence

Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence

Stop Handgun Violence (Massachusetts)

Northland Brady Chapter (Minnesota)

Million Mom March, Richmond, VA chapter

New Yorkers Against Gun Violence

North Carolinians Against Gun Violence

Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence

Lance Orchid, National Organizing Director, Gun Violence Prevention

ProgressNow Colorado

Protect Minnesota

Maria Roach, New Organizing Institute, Gun Violence Prevention Senior Fellow

Virginia Center for Public Safety

Washington CeaseFire

Wisconsin Anti-Violence Educational Fund

Gun  Control Australia praises these organisations that seek to protect American people from the pro-violence policies of that country’s shooting groups.