For all those who say that #guncontrol doesn't work because the criminals will always have guns, I say: Australia proves you wrong
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Let's look at an arrest a few years ago in Sydney. It was a pretty massive one at the timepic.twitter.com/jhqLbfxV5N
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Thing is, this is a decades-old machine gun with quite limited ammunition
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I mean, this was a career criminal with multiple convictions. And he was able to scrounge up an antique gun and 150 rounds
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Another similar incident saw the police raid an organized crime lair and find an honest-to-god MP-40 from the second world war
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Compare that to the rifle(s) that were used in Las Vegas. AND THIS IS ORGANIZED CRIME
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Even the criminals can't get their hands on all that many guns here. So..yeh
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#guncontrol works. You just have to want to implement it
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