No, Australian gun laws have not stopped mass shootings there....

[2aguy]

One school shooting in their history. Clearly they are doing something right and we are doing something wrong.

That has nothing to do with guns. What has stopped individuals with guns from currently walking into Australian schools? Nothing. Their gun control laws have nothing to do with their low number of public shootings.....the bad shooting of public shooters and a lack of desire to shoot more people in public has everything to do with it...since they still have public shootings, those shooters just haven't killed 3 or more people.......

Dumb luck does not show their gun control laws work...

Their gun control laws make for a more peaceful society overall, and not so obsessed with guns like you are.

So Australia is more peaceful since their gun laws?

FYI the murder rate in Australia was very low before they started banning guns and it is lower because like the UK their societal structure and all the variables involved are very different than ours

Correct; the UK has been frought with industrial scale violence for most of their history; large participants in both world wars most recently. Australia was founded as a penal colony.

The US? Largely untouched by war.

One would think that they would have the more violent societies. But I suppose that having seen industrial-scale violence up close has made the residents more resistant to inviting the weapons of that violence into their culture.

The US has been at war for nearly its whole existence.

But the destruction of those wars never affected us the way it affected the European continent.... they had 12 million civilians murdered by the national socialists on top of the war dead.....then you had men killed in the war, the countries infrastructure destroyed, twice..... it slowed down their societal decay...

 

[Taz]

That has nothing to do with guns. What has stopped individuals with guns from currently walking into Australian schools? Nothing. Their gun control laws have nothing to do with their low number of public shootings.....the bad shooting of public shooters and a lack of desire to shoot more people in public has everything to do with it...since they still have public shootings, those shooters just haven't killed 3 or more people.......

Dumb luck does not show their gun control laws work...

Their gun control laws make for a more peaceful society overall, and not so obsessed with guns like you are.

So Australia is more peaceful since their gun laws?

FYI the murder rate in Australia was very low before they started banning guns and it is lower because like the UK their societal structure and all the variables involved are very different than ours

Correct; the UK has been frought with industrial scale violence for most of their history; large participants in both world wars most recently. Australia was founded as a penal colony.

The US? Largely untouched by war.

One would think that they would have the more violent societies. But I suppose that having seen industrial-scale violence up close has made the residents more resistant to inviting the weapons of that violence into their culture.

The US has been at war for nearly its whole existence.

But the destruction of those wars never affected us the way it affected the European continent.... they had 12 million civilians murdered by the national socialists on top of the war dead.....then you had men killed in the war, the countries infrastructure destroyed, twice..... it slowed down their societal decay...

Of course it has affected us, we're a violent society, ready to bomb the shit out of anyone any time.

 

[2aguy]

Their gun control laws make for a more peaceful society overall, and not so obsessed with guns like you are.

So Australia is more peaceful since their gun laws?

FYI the murder rate in Australia was very low before they started banning guns and it is lower because like the UK their societal structure and all the variables involved are very different than ours

Correct; the UK has been frought with industrial scale violence for most of their history; large participants in both world wars most recently. Australia was founded as a penal colony.

The US? Largely untouched by war.

One would think that they would have the more violent societies. But I suppose that having seen industrial-scale violence up close has made the residents more resistant to inviting the weapons of that violence into their culture.

The US has been at war for nearly its whole existence.

But the destruction of those wars never affected us the way it affected the European continent.... they had 12 million civilians murdered by the national socialists on top of the war dead.....then you had men killed in the war, the countries infrastructure destroyed, twice..... it slowed down their societal decay...

Of course it has affected us, we're a violent society, ready to bomb the shit out of anyone any time.

No.....we fight when we are attacked..... we protect the world with our people and our money, we have kept the world at peace since the end of World War 2......