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NEVER HAPPENS THERE, ONLY HAPPENS HERE ACCORDING TO FIELD MARSHAL OBAMA – AT 10:43 A.M. ET:  The field marshal has been ranting about the evils of the United States, which are infinite in his mind.  We are alone among the civilized nations to have this gun problem.

Uh, just a sec.  There was an incident in Australia, which confiscates guns, just a few days ago.  The Australian prime minister, unlike our field marshal, gets it right.  From AFP:

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Saturday that a Sydney attack in which a 15-year-old gunman shot dead a civilian police employee appeared to have been an act of terrorism.

Police said the teen, who they did not name, was shot dead in an exchange of fire with officers after he killed finance worker Curtis Cheng at close range outside the New South Wales force’s headquarters in western Sydney on Friday.

Reports said that the youth, who police said was of Iraqi-Kurdish background and had been born in Iran, had been shouting religious slogans before shooting Cheng in the back of the head.

“I saw him pacing up and down at police headquarters with a gun above his head, he was yelling something and dressed in a black robe,” one witness told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph.

Turnbull called on Australians to go about their lives as usual as they begin a long weekend in which two major sporting finals will be held in Sydney and Melbourne.

“This appears to have been an act of politically motivated violence so at this stage it appears to have been an act of terrorism. It is a shocking crime,” the prime minister said in Melbourne.

“It was a cold-blooded murder, targeting the New South Wales Police Service. It was doubly shocking because it was perpetrated by a 15-year-old boy.

“And it underlines the importance of families, communities, leaders being very aware of whether young people are becoming radicalized,” he said.

COMMENT:  When it happens here, under Obama, it's "workplace violence," the official designation of the Fort Hood massacre.  And we are sternly lectured not to indict an entire religion, as if we have to be told.

October 3,  2015