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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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/
Wyoming has highest gun ownership of all 51 states, yet murder rate comparable to UK.
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