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Originally Posted by JoeT
Tenrocca,
It's interesting that you are ONLY concerned with FIREARM deaths. Myself, I'm concerned with all homicides. A little talked about fact, IN AUSTRALIA, where it's an (anti)gun utopia after the 2007 ban, homicides briefly increased and then LEVELED OFF to pre ban figures. People are still being killed, just not by gun. So I would think that translates to the "gun ban" had no effect on homicides. So you may be correct that "more gun = more gun crime", but the reality is that less guns actually have ZERO effect on actual homicides (which I think is what we are all really trying to reduce). Then take into account that the Homicide death in the US has actually decreased in the very same time period, while gun laws have actually loosened.
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My original point was on the Mass shootings, of which there have been none in Oz since 1996.
As murdering someone using a gun was always in the lower percentage of all murders in Australia (as guns were never as easy to get as they are in the US), the impact of restricting their sale and type was not ever going to be as great as it would be in the US, where murder by guns is by far the most common way to kill someone (67% of all murders).
The graph is just a graph of real data, its source is irrelevant as I was not highlighting any observations\interpretations\analysis made by the source. Anyone with half a brain can see the obvious trend. You probably cant.
Cheers