Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)

Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by refurb on Thursday May 26, 2022 @09:11AM (#31517893)

Australia still has more than half the guns it had prior to that legislation.

And still has regular shootings in Sydney due to gang violence.

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by brokenmachine on Friday May 27, 2022 @01:16AM (#31526221)

"Regular" being maybe 10 per year, as a guess.

As an Australian, I certainly wouldn't want to swap for the shitshow that is US gun crime.

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by refurb on Friday May 27, 2022 @02:06AM (#31526480)

If by 10 per year, do you mean 13 murders (not just shootings) in just Sydney in the last two years?

The US is obviously worse, but to claim Australia has control of gun violence is kind of silly. It's clearly out of police control.

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by brokenmachine on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @12:02AM (#31649761)

I meant 10 shootings but like I say, it was just a guess.

From your link, 11 gang murders in two years seems pretty good to me.

Personally I'd consider that pretty under control.

I certainly don't live in fear of gun crime here.

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