Who cares? The question is whether gun control works to curtail homicides.
It doesn't.
There are countries on this planet with strict gun laws and high homicide rates, and countries with lax gun laws and low homicide rates.
And everything in between.
Every study I have ever seen shows no correlation between gun ownership and homicide rates.
Mark
The U.K. Does a good job avoiding mass shootings...
And? Its not because of gun control, its because of their culture. Like I said, there is no correlation between gun ownership and homicides.
Look at Japan. It has one of the highest suicide rates in the world(and one of the lowest crime rates) because their culture views suicide differently than most of the rest of the world.
Mark
Australia sure slowed mass shootings with gun control.
Do you care how the people died? Or is it just guns that you care about?
BTW, until the massacre of 35 at Port Authur that led to the gun ban, the largest mass murder was 15 using arson as the weapon of choice.
Matter of fact, the largest mass shooting before Port Aurthur had 8 deaths, so Australia didn't "slow" anything. In Australia, Port Aurthur was an anomaly.
Also interesting is that since gun control in 1997, arson attacks killed 15, 10, and 11 people. A knife attack killed 8.
Mark