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Originally posted by ubiquity0
Competentone: there is an awful lot more than "a few thousand" guns in Australia. Something like 700,000 were destroyed in the govt's 'buyback' scheme, and this was believed to be 1/7th of the guns at that time (19.4% of households there own guns, versus 39% in the US). Hence there must still be several million guns, not "a few thousand".
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Just looked it up (Australian Gov. numbers):
"As of 1 July 2001 there were....2,165,170 firearms in Australia."
5.2% of the adult population of Australia own firearms.
So my comments, taking Australia into consideration just looking at "firearms" generally, isn't accurate.
For the point I was making, you can leave Australia out of the picture, or you can consider the issue of types of firearms -- for example, in Australia there are virtually no privately owned semi-auto pistols; compare the gun homicide rates in the U.S. involving semi-auto handguns to the gun homicide rates in Australia with the same type of pistol, then consider percentages measured against the legally owned guns...
My overall point (that some seem to be missing here) is that
it is not the gun that is causing anything. It is a people issue; focusing on "guns" isn't a solution to crime problems.