Artevelde
Senior Member
This is true. We hear about gun violence once a month, if we are lucky. Sometimes there is a spate of drive by shootings, very rarely is someone harmed or killed, though.
260 homicides in Australia in 2010 apparently.
Were they gun related? My guess is no.
13% firearms, 39% knives, 8% blunt instrument; 0% physical force; 40% "unknown" (could be anything)
Firearms are also used in 18% of armed robberies.
Can't detail everything.
But gun laws or not, it's perfectly average for a few dozen people to be killed by firearms in Australia every year. And clearly if somebody in Australia gets it into his/her head to go on a shooting spree, this is perfectly possible.