Re: "The U.S. is the only developed country without any effective gun control. We have an astronomically higher homicide rate than the others" - opinion

Blinky Bill wrote:

People who can't get legal access to firearms in Australia are people with mental problems, criminals and people with court orders against them. They might be "ordinary folk" where you live but fortunately I live in a country where they are not regarded in that way.

Then how do you explain the massive hand-in of huge collections of firearms when your confiscatory laws went into effect? Are you saying that all those people were criminals?


Nor does it seem to percolate through their skulls that for the
vast majority of the country, the homicide and other violent crime
rates are very low.

Then obviously in some other places they are very high.

What's your point?
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