This is interesting echelon. I wanted to ask you if Australians experience the same kind of random mass murdering like here in the US?
Not really, we had a mass shooting in 1994, that IMO, was staged with restrictive firearms legislation waiting in the wings to be introduced into parliament. Obviously, the legislation rode a wave of support through both houses of parliament, galvanised by public support because of the Port Arthur Massacre. He used an AR-15 variant too...
So they brought in very tight gun laws, banned magazine capacity over 10 rounds, limited pistol calibres to no higher than a .38 and banned automatic weapons.
Over the last 40 years we've had like 20 or 25 mass shootings and many Australians don't want to see laws tightened any further, which I don't think they will be.
We actually own more guns now than we did in the '90s and more legal guns are in circulation. Only 16% of homicides are due to GSW.