The Western Australian police minister, Paul Papalia said 'the threshold needs to be lower' in police intervention following the shocking Perth shooting death of Jenny and Gretl Petelczyc.
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00:00 Licensed firearm owners, there have been on average, this is on average, four people a
00:06 year are shot dead, murdered with a gun in Western Australia over the last seven years.
00:13 A number of those murders are committed by licensed firearms owners.
00:19 The Osmington mass murder, the biggest mass shooting in Australia since the Port Arthur
00:25 massacre happened in Western Australia was committed by a licensed firearms owner with
00:31 a licensed firearm.
00:33 Nick Martin's assassination in a public place at the motorplex, surrounded by other innocent
00:40 people was committed by a licensed firearm owner with a licensed firearm.
00:45 Last year, the first school shooting in Australia was committed by a child with a licensed firearm,
00:52 the child of a licensed firearm owner, and last year, the Kelleberran murder suicide
00:57 was committed by a licensed firearm owner with a licensed firearm.
01:01 And then this year, we've had this horrific event, a licensed firearms owner with a licensed
01:06 firearm.
01:08 Firearms aren't the only thing that needs to be considered in FDV response, but it's
01:14 a part of it.
01:16 It's one of the elements.
01:18 It's not in the upper house because of what happened on Friday.
01:22 It's in the upper house because we've been working on it for two years and that needs
01:26 to be considered.
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