Mass shooting Las Vegas

[Rab]

Lawlight said:

Rab said:

Not true for Australia, 30 years ago gun ownership was very high in Australia, most old Australian families had rural connections and owning a gun was seen as normal for most of us

But since the laws/buy backs/amesty gun ownership per head has plummeted and people are very favourable towards those laws restricing guns 

Australians generally dont have the feeling they could be shot when going about their business, and police dont generally use guns, so few gun related deaths from both  

Not quite true - 30 years ago, 75% of households did not own a firearm so it wasn't the norm.

Gun ownership per household was already dropping before the ban and only around 12% of households had a firearm before 1996. That number was 6.2% in 2005.

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/proportion_of_households_with_firearms

Here's the catch though - there's now more gun owners than before the ban due to the increase in population:

http://theconversation.com/australias-gun-numbers-climb-men-who-own-several-buy-more-than-ever-before-58142

It was seen as normal to own a gun and a large percentage of the population had them, it did drop a lot over the years, it is now at it's lowest per head of population in modern Australian history