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Originally Posted by Tenrocca
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).
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wasn't there one just just last month outside a daycare/ I remember reading about it the same day (or maybe the next) after pResident obama was calling for more sensible laws, like those in Australia. I think it was right after the Umpqua shooting, so maybe October?