I don’t think Australia’s laws are at all rational. I think they are bloody irrational.
But about a million Australians own millions of firearms so I think it’s a bit misleading to describe the country as a gun free zone.
Guns rust. Good luck with that.
For all intents and purposes, Australia is a gun free zone and I understand that there are still citizens that own guns there but what I was trying to convey was that it is highly unlikely that an armed citizen will ever be present in a situation like this to intervene-that an attacker can be quite confident that he will have the only firearm in the building when he walks in with his and starts shooting people. A movie theater or a school is considered a gun free zone in America because rules have been put into place which greatly reduce the odds of a law abiding gun carrying citizen being present when a psycho walks in and takes over. It’s a generalization in other words.
In 2012, it was 730,000 gun owners, down from 765,000 in 2001, what is it today?
The number of legal firearms in 2012 was 2,750,000.
About 172,000 hand guns are owned by the people.