As an Australian, I always find it odd when US gun people tell me that gun control hasn’t worked here. It is, oddly enough, just factually untrue 1/pic.twitter.com/lHNrcYaVGt
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And, of course, the mass shootings stopped. Not reduced. Stopped 4/
There hasn’t been a mass shooting in Australia since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. Pretty successful I'd say 5/
The UK is a bit more complex. Their two sweeping firearms legislative acts were in the late 80s and early 90s, when the homicide rate was actually increasing. It’s a bit harder to tell whether the gun legislation prevented homicides when the rate is already trending upwards 6/
That being said, they do enjoy one of the lowest total homicide rates in the developed world, less than one-fifth of the American rate, so arguing that their legislation is somehow ineffective seems a bit disingenuous 7/
This trend repeats itself across the world. If you map gun ownership and murder rates you tend to see a strong trend towards more murders when there are more guns 8/pic.twitter.com/HaBIgzkCve
It’s not definitively causative — obviously, there are a lot of factors in murder rates — but the idea that people substitute gun murders for other kinds of murder such as knife, fire, rock etc is largely unsubstantiated 9/
Basically, gun control works. You see fewer deaths, fewer murders, and perhaps more importantly, it prevents school shootings 10/
Neither Australia nor the UK has seen a single school shooting since their gun control acts 11/
If you want to prevent incidents like what happened in Florida, it’s pretty clear what works. Fin 12/
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