Tornado Alley (PROG)

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When Australia bit the bullet so to speak on armaments, the number of gun deaths plummeted. Fuagf can probably give insight on that. Oddly enough, mass shootings ended with the ban.


“While 13 gun massacres (the killing of 4 or more people at one time) occurred in Australia in the 18 years before the NFA, resulting in more than one hundred deaths, in the 14 following years (and up to the present), there were no gun massacres.”
“In the seven years before the NFA (1989-1995), the average annual firearm suicide death rate per 100,000 was 2.6 (with a yearly range of 2.2 to 2.9); in the seven years after the buyback was fully implemented (1998-2004), the average annual firearm suicide rate was 1.1 (yearly range 0.8 to 1.4).”
“In the seven years before the NFA, the average annual firearm homicide rate per 100,000 was .43 (range .27 to .60) while for the seven years post NFA, the average annual firearm homicide rate was .25 (range .16 to .33).”
“[T]he drop in firearm deaths was largest among the type of firearms most affected by the buyback.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/gun-control-australia-updated/


I have a number of guns, probably more than most people, as I inherited a bunch. None of my rifles are semi-automatic or have a magazine bigger than 7 rounds, and I did just fine back when I hunted.