13 Dead in Shooting in Thousand Oaks California

[outlawauron]

Cobretti2 said:

outlawauron said:

So what is your actual suggestion? Go from home to home and seize all guns from every person? Ban all guns from being sold? Ban all guns from sale except those designated for hunting? Ban all guns in populated areas, but allow them in rural areas?

You don't publicly display your country, but there isn't a straight ban across the world as various countries have different levels of gun control.

Violent crime and homicides are decreasing in the US as well. The above data shows that the gun ban did nothing to decrease homicides.

From his link (http://crimestats.aic.gov.au/NHMP/1_trends/):

- On average, domestic homicides accounted for 40 percent of homicide incidents in Australia each year.

- Acquaintance homicides accounted for 35 percent of all homicide incidents.

- An average 33 stranger homicide incidents occur each year in Australia

 

Also a graph there that shows cause of death by gun shot wounds:

- 1996 saw 106 deaths

- 2014 saw 32 deaths

 

Most those gunshot wounds would be domestic homicides by farmers (who have hunting rifles on the farm) killing their families cause life just got too difficult.  So the gun restrictions have worked.

And the #1 cause of gun deaths in the United States is suicide. We count that as part of our gun statistics.

The gun ban in Australia reduced the number of gun related deaths, but didn't have any measurable impact on the number homicides.