It doesn't matter if you ban guns, those willing to commit murder will just find new and creative ways
They have now released an X-ray of the 27-year-old's skull and neck, which shows it was filled with 34 nails. "Post-mortem examination results revealed Mr Liu was shot repeatedly to the head with a high-powered nail gun. Similar types of nail guns can fire nails up to 85 millimetres long," Detective Inspector Mark Newham of the Homicide Squad said in a statement.
They have now released an X-ray of the 27-year-old's skull and neck, which shows it was filled with 34 nails.
"Post-mortem examination results revealed Mr Liu was shot repeatedly to the head with a high-powered nail gun. Similar types of nail guns can fire nails up to 85 millimetres long," Detective Inspector Mark Newham of the Homicide Squad said in a statement.
Now, the next statement is so worth reading
The head of the Homicide Squad, Geoff Beresford, says the weapon has not been found.
You got that? The weapon has not been found.
A nail gun is a useful tool. Without it, I'd have never been able to put up baseboards around my house in a reasonable amount of time. Construction workers have become much more efficient with these items and can crank out much more work in smaller amounts of time.
But once the target of the nail gun is no longer a wooden beam or roofing tile but instead, a human being, then it becomes a weapon. Not just any weapon, but an assault weapon. Just because a nail gun is designed to assist in construction doesn't mean that intent is transferred to the user. No matter how much Black & Decker wanted the tool only to be used for building things, Mr Liu is dead nonetheless. An object's intended design has no bearing on how it's used. I think I've said that before.
Maybe if we registered nails…