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War  ·  3083 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: June 12, 2016 Orlando Nightclub Shooting, discussion

You brought up Australia's homicide rate which has nothing to do with the reason for their strict gun restrictions. Gun restrictions were put in place in Australia to halt the use of firearms in mass shootings, not to stop homicides. Homicide rates are rarely the target of gun reform because people will just find new ways to kill one another, gun reform is mostly put in place to stop tragedies such as these from occurring which under most circumstances it does a good job of.