RE: For Americans tired of NRA bullying.
June 23, 2016 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2016 at 3:37 pm by Tiberius.)
(June 23, 2016 at 3:22 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: If you take the 20 years before there were 80 massacre victims in Australia and in the 20 years since there has been 64 massacre victims. It's pretty hard to draw the conclusion that gun control prevents massacres from that data.
I think the conclusion is that gun control prevents (or reduces) gun-related massacres. I'm not sure you are counting correctly either.
If you look at the actual massacres where guns were the main weapon in the 20 year periods, you get the following:
1976 - 1996 (including Port Arthur massacre): 114 killed (all massacres in this 20 year period used guns)
1996 - 2016 (not including Port Arthur): 13 killed (only 4/10 massacres in this 20 year period used guns)
If you ask me, that data is pretty conclusive.
Not only were the number of gun massacres reduced, but the average number of people killed as a result of gun massacres dropped as well. An average of 7.6 people were killed in every gun massacre between 1976 and 1996, compared to 3.25 in the latter period. More people were killed by Arson attacks (36 people in 3 attacks) in the latter period.
