Alrighty, let's just all step back for a bit here.
We've all said things in the heat of things in this thread, we've gotten things off our chests and let's just step back and calm down for a bit.
I understand how the Aussies must be feeling, I felt the same way in the weeks after 7/7. Sure, more people may die in one week in Chicago, but it doesn't make the news in the way that this did, internationally, because it doesn't have the magic trigger word 'Muslim' in it.
This isn't a thread about gun control, this isn't a thread about dark humour, it's a thread about Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson, and all those who survived being taken hostage by a madman for seventeen hours. If people want to open up a thread to discuss the average week in inner Chicago or Detroit then that's fair enough, but otherwise, honestly, it has no real place in this thread.
So let's just put our keyboards down, and move on.