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Originally Posted by Boreas
There was a mass shooting in Tasmania, Australia in 1996. Thirty-five people were killed. Within two weeks Conservative Prime Minister John Howard passed sweeping gun control laws banning assault rifles and high capacity magazines, creating stricter national registration requirements and instituting a mandatory buyback program of the newly banned weapons.
Since that time, gun-related homicides have dropped by 59% and suicide rates fell by 76% with no parallel increase in non-firearm related homicides and suicides. There hasn't been a single mass killing in Australia since.
John
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That will never happen in the US. Australia does not have a Second Amendment.
12-23-2012, 03:03 PM
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