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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Yeah, and on every one of those days 3000 people in the US died from preventable causes, and I bet a whole lot of those have equally sad circumstances behind them. I have no love for guns, would never own one, and would be just fine is someone took them all away. But the fact is mass shooting are just not statistically significant and even if you eliminated all of them, you aren't really making the country any safer in any kind of measurable way.
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The Australia model seems to be working, Snopes had to cover the numerous claims that things are worse since the 1997 ban:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp
John Oliver's Daily show segment on Australia's ban is also hilarity.