More shootings.

[Brian37]

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.

So now the excuse not to improve is "trends"? Ok, see if that excuse washes with any family member of a murder victim.

I'd say when we get to the point of Japan's gun death rate, we'd be on the right track, but right now Australia vs America doesn't mean much to me, much less the victims of any gun death.