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If you’re going to take this on, you need to wrestle with more well rounded stats. Australia has 1/13th the masacre rates compared to the US since the Port Authur massacre. Though the suicide rates are quite similar, but drastically lower by guns in AUS. it suggests that AUS is no happier that US, but gun deaths is indeed lowered directly by their bans.
Now take on homicide…US is about 4-6 times the AUS rate, overall. Shooting homicides is less and 1 per 100k people in AUS, and the US is about 4.5 to 6.
Yes, an armed citizen might have taken down this killer at Bondi, as a single incident, but the overall stats are the facts. AUS laws had a real reduction is masacre rates over the nearly 30 years since the laws went into place. AUS robbery rates are real, no doubt, at about 50% that of the US, and this may suggest that WHO has guns in AUS more of the criminal element. This is an offsetting consideration.
I support MANY aspects of 2a, but the 2a community needs better and fully rounded arguments and the grapple with greater complexity.
Sheriff Grady Judd once stated, “You cannot kill evil enough.”
Need to include racial balance in your stats. The mix is not the same and violent crime is not uniformly distributed. By a wide margin. Australia is predominantly white. Look at white US stats. While white people make up a little over 60% of the population, they only make up about 41% of fatal police shootings. Black people make up 13.4% of the population, but make up 22% of fatal police shootings. Drug use is a factor. It is not the guns, it is the needles!