An Australian comic on what U.S. gun laws look like to the rest of the world

The Washington Post ^ | June 19, 2015 | Ana Swanson

[MinorityRepublican]

"I'm going to talk about something now that sort of splits the crowd a little bit," Australian comedian Jim Jeffries says. "Gun control."

"Don't get excited," he continues, "because the other people have guns!"

"Shhhhh."

In this hilarious act, Jeffries says he believes in the right of Americans to have gun, but seems skeptical of the argument -- often made by gun rights activists often claim -- that Americans need guns for their own security.

"In Australia we had guns, right up until 1996. In 1996 Australia had the biggest massacre on earth. Still hasn't been beaten," Jeffries says. "Now after that they banned guns. Now in the 10 years before Port Arthur, there were 10 massacres. Since the gun ban in 1996, there hasn't been a single massacre since. I don't know how or why this happened. Maybe it was a coincidence."

[MinorityRepublican]

I remember that Australia used to control immigration: no Blacks, no Indians, nobody from Muslim countries, etc. and Australia was a very low crime country.

Now they have Asians. But not many Black's though.