The only result of Australia’s gun laws has been to restrict its citizens’ liberties.
It’s hard to understand when they have a frontier heritage not unlike ours, but Australians seem to be largely happy with the loss of their freedom.
But one thing both sides miss when they compare American gun laws with the rest of the world’s is that we have always been unique in that our citizens are armed. As Madison wrote in Federalist 46, “the advantage of being armed” is one “the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.” It is one of the things that has always made us exceptional.