Given the excellent evidence, why would you oppose a more robust licensing system?
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Replying to @GidMK @DavidWAkin
there is no evidence it works for anything but suicide rates. That does not warrant mass intervention.
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your excellent evidence isnt. Its an arbitrary subgrouping identifying a specific means of death
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its not tied to death in general or most of the modes of death.
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Replying to @ratman720 @DavidWAkin
Simply false unfortunately. The study uses all gun deaths, which are reduced significantly.
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Replying to @GidMK @DavidWAkin
ugh... no shit gun deaths will be reduced by gun control. But if knife deaths increase you gain nothing
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Replying to @ratman720 @DavidWAkin
Fortunately the overall rate of gun deaths in Australia has fallen and has not been replaced.
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Replying to @GidMK @DavidWAkin
gun deaths yes. But the overall homicide rate dropped at the same rate as the US. Thus no effect
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Replying to @ratman720 @DavidWAkin
Simply a useless comparison of two stats that you only cherry-pick because it's convenient.
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The PERCENTAGE drop in rates was quite different from 98-2016, for example.
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US going down by about 20%, Australia dropping by more than 60%
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Australia's gun deaths fell by more than half whilst the US's declined slightly percentage wise.
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