America has a gun homicide rate about 15 times greater than Australia. Australians have been protected from the tragic gun madness of the USA by our stricter gun laws. The stricter laws were enacted in Australia after 32 were murdered by shooters in 1987, 41 were murdered by shooters in 1996 and two were murdered by a shooter in 1992.
The main consequence of the stricter gun controls is that now Australia’s annual gun death rate is only about one third of what it was during the previous two t...