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Gun laws were not brought in to lower crime. The only intention was so that people like Martin Bryant could not easily kill over 30 people using a semi-automatic assault weapons.
Here's a question. How many spree killings have Australia had since Martin Bryant?
How many school shootings have there been in the US since Columbine?
Also, read the snopes article on the subject. It's very informative. There are so few homicides in Australia that even the smallest fluctuation looks statistically significant. For example. Say for arguements sake we had 1 homicide last year and this year we had 2. You could say that's an increase of 100%, which sounds very dramatic. Or you could just say there was one more death than the previous year.
But it's all moot anyways.
The gun laws were not brought in for that reason. Simple as that. We haven't had another Columbine. We won't have another Columbine.
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