Trump The Mad King
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but it really didn'tYet Australia's gun violence declined dramatically. Go figure, goober.
their murder rate was already very low historically
Australia’s 1996 Gun Confiscation Didn’t Work | National Review
The Australian gun-homicide rate had already been quite low and had been steadily falling in the 15 years prior to the Port Arthur massacre. And while the mandatory buyback program did appear to reduce the rate of accidental firearm deaths, Baker and McPhedran found that “the gun buy-back and restrictive legislative changes had no influence on firearm homicide in Australia.”
National Review, goober. Great source.
You can't refute the data so you attack the source
Typical
I absolutely can refute it, Repug goober. From factcheck.org:
Gun Control in Australia, Updated - FactCheck.org
With Australia’s population steadily increasing, the nation’s homicide incident rate has fallen even more than the number of homicides — from 1.6 per 100,000 in 1995-96 to 1 per 100,000 in 2013-2014, according to a government report on crime trends. That was the lowest homicide incident rate at the time in 25 years, as we mentioned earlier.
The number of firearm-related homicides also has dropped substantially since the 1996 gun law was enacted.
National Review is a dishonest rag of a news publication. Only unsophisticated Repug goobers like you take it seriously.
But it was already dropping fast BEFORE the gun bans idiot.
There is no conclusive evidence that the gun ban and th gun ban alone is responsible
Yeah, I guess people in Australia just got a lot happier over the past 25 years and quit committing suicide as much. Of course, not having guns makes it more difficult to commit suicide.
A drop from 1.6 to 1.0 is what you call "statistically significant", my unsophisticated Repug goober friend. You can't prove conclusively that the gun ban is the cause, but it is highly probable that it's the cause.