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Re: Florida Shooting: 17 Students Shot dead in another Mass Shooting in the U.S
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Originally Posted by denphone
Even if they had far stricter gun controls these people will always get their hands on a gun sadly as we have very strict gun controls in the UK and that did not stop the Hungerford , Dunblane and other shootings.
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Australians would disagree...
https://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/gu...ralia-updated/
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“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.”
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