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Perth mother and daughter shot dead by friend's ex-partner in double murder-suicide

www.abc.net.au Perth mother and daughter shot dead by friend's ex-partner in double murder-suicide

The gunman who shot and killed a mother and her teenage daughter in Perth's affluent western suburbs did so because he thought his ex-partner was at the property.

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This is all kinds of horrible. How did he even have a gun?

While he certainly intended to commit violence against a woman, there's a little nuance in this example. I don't believe that he'd have walked away and not shot the people in the house had it been a father and son.
- You believe that he would not walk away but shoot the people (father and son)? Or that the would have walked away and not shot them? Or that a woman would not have done that? Or any other way to interpret the last sentence?
  
  I think they mean that, because he was there to commit violence to someone else and just killed whoever happened to be in the house, it's not a good example of gendered violence against women since he probably would have killed a man who answered the door too (not walk away without killing anyone).
  
  I'd say that it's actually a pretty good example though since, he was trying to find his ex-wife. Presumably to kill her. So an example of a violent man targeting a woman and then killing other women instead... It's something that's been in Australian news a lot lately with the recent protests following a depressingly large number of women killed by their partners so far this year.
- So how do you get a gun in Perth?
  
  I don't know in truth. From friends I know who shoot, they need to keep their hand guns at the range. They can't take them home. Farmers can have rifles, but I'm having a hard time picturing a rifle being the weapon in this story.
Tragic. Has violence against women been increasing or are we just reporting on the trend more?

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