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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: zzpat who wrote (68619)4/27/2018 12:17:22 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 354629
 
The rate of decline is irrelevant.

No its the key statistic. If heavily restricting guns doesn't cause murder (and armed robbery, attempted murder, malicious wounding, aggravated assault etc.) to decline then there isn't much point of doing so. If it declines slower in a country that institutes heavy restrictions then in a country that is liberalizing gun laws and increasing then number of guns, then its an argument against such laws. Only a weak argument, there are always other differences, but certainly at least it shoots a hole in the idea that the record on Australia is an argument for instituting such controls on guns.

There hasn't been one mass shooting since they reformed their gun laws.

False. Also not really the key issue anyway. If your murdered by yourself or with one other person your just as dead as if your killed with 10 other people. The vast majority of murders in both countries are not from mass shootings.
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