650,000 guns destroyed.
How did this effort turn out in Australia?
Don’t know. Regardless, we’re not Australians.
650,000 guns destroyed.
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/261-280/tandi269/view%20paper.html
I think we had more people die from shark attacks and snakebite than gunshot. The majority of gun deaths in Oz are suicide...all that great weather, lots of space, sports and low unemployment just gets on top of some people...
Prime Minister Howard seems to have over-reacted to a couple of mass-shooting incidents, but nobody really minded the buy-back, those who wish to can still buy guns with some restrictions and very sensible rules on how and where they should be kept. Sure reduced the suicide and hospital admission rates.
If I lived in the US, I would have a totally different attitude to gun ownership, that idiot Feinstein is comparing apples to oranges.