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To: combjelly who wrote (947316)	7/16/2016 10:28:23 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575775

Australia's homicides declined since the "buyback". They also decline before the buyback. At the same time they declined in the US where there was no buyback and the total number of guns went up. It all amounts to almost no evidence in terms of the buyback being effective in Australia, and no evidence in terms of such confiscation being useful here. In Australia they still have the weapons they would need for a mass shooting. They also have the weapons for mass killings other then shootings such as the truck used in Nice). There were apparently several million guns in Australia before the legal change, the buyback apparently brought in under 700 thousand. Reality is that possessing a gun makes you more than 3 times more likely to die by a gun No evidence of anything close to that. People who own a gun are more likely to die by a gun, but people who are in greater danger of being shot by someone are more likely to arm themselves. (Also the areas with the strictest gun control in the US tend to have higher murder rates.)