Despite gun control, Australia suffers worst mass shooting since 1996

Gun control advocates in the U.S. often cite Australia as the shining role model of what type of policies they want their own government to adopt to reduce the high occurrences of mass shootings around the country. However, Australia is now dealing with its worst mass shooting since the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania in 1996.

On Friday, seven bodies – three adults and four children – were discovered on a property in the southwestern Australian tourist town of Margaret River. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, police are handling it as a murder-suicide.