Posted: 12/18/2025 10:52:39 PM EDT
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/17/theres-no-evidence-australias-strict-gun-control-laws-are-effective/ The supposed benefits of Australia’s gun buy-back rest on flawed statistics. Only concealed carry reduces mass public shootings. Gun control advocates selectively highlight countries that appear to confirm their preferred narrative. Using Australia as proof is like selectively pointing to U.S. states with lax gun control laws that have experienced no mass public shootings. Thirteen states that the Giffords gun control group gave an “F” grade to have had no mass public shootings since 2010 — Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. We analyzed 13 different gun control policies, including waiting periods, registration, background checks, bans on so-called assault weapons, the death penalty, and harsher penalties for crimes committed with firearms. Only one policy reduced both the number and severity of mass public shootings: allowing law-abiding citizens to defend themselves by carrying permitted concealed handguns. Subsequent research has continued to confirm this finding. |
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Originally Posted By TurboVolute: https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/17/theres-no-evidence-australias-strict-gun-control-laws-are-effective/ The supposed benefits of Australia’s gun buy-back rest on flawed statistics. Only concealed carry reduces mass public shootings. Gun control advocates selectively highlight countries that appear to confirm their preferred narrative. Using Australia as proof is like selectively pointing to U.S. states with lax gun control laws that have experienced no mass public shootings. Thirteen states that the Giffords gun control group gave an “F” grade to have had no mass public shootings since 2010 — Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. We analyzed 13 different gun control policies, including waiting periods, registration, background checks, bans on so-called assault weapons, the death penalty, and harsher penalties for crimes committed with firearms. Only one policy reduced both the number and severity of mass public shootings: allowing law-abiding citizens to defend themselves by carrying permitted concealed handguns. Subsequent research has continued to confirm this finding. While I am 100% in agreement with the article, Alabama has had at least one mass shooting. Happened at a party for "teens" down in SE Alabama a few years back. |
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Honestly, Australia is a different culture. It is the result of dumping prisoners on a large island full of indigenous people’s and asking them to clear the land to add more English colonists….. What did you think this society would look like? Basically land dwellers always out last roamers. They establish fortifications. Then they weaken from within and get rid of internal weapons, except for the remaining criminals. Total chaos which continues through to this day. Hence following the Brits gun banning. Are they importing more criminals too! |