RE: More shootings.
December 27, 2012 at 4:45 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2012 at 4:48 pm by CapnAwesome.)
(December 27, 2012 at 4:18 pm)Ryantology Wrote: And Australia's has trended downwards since the gun restrictions put into place after the Port Arthur massacre: http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide.html
Looks like it actually rose for several years, and didn't start trending downwards until recently. Murder has fallen in virtually every first world country in the same time frame, including the United States, which has had a much more dramatic drop than Australia. I'm just not seeing the correlation between guns and crime that people on here seem to insist is true.
Also I'd like to note that isn't an explanation for why murder went up in the UK when their gun laws were put into place. I'm still waiting for one.
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