Mass shooting Las Vegas

[Lawlight]

Nymeria said:

Lawlight said:

Yeah, they were banned in 1996 with the government allowing an amnesty for people to surrender their unlicensed guns without being prosecuted. The licensed ones were purchased back I think. But the rate of homicide with firearms was decreasing at the rate of 3% each year even before the ban. The ban accelerated that to 5%.

How many mass shootings have occured in Austrailia since 1996?

Do Australians look favorable upon the change or wish to go back to pre-1996 laws?

0 mass shooting but mostly out of luck. There were other massacres, just not by guns. And I say we got lucky because there has been shooting sprees. That Sydney siege could have been a lot worse.

It's looked upon favourably, no doubt about that.