Hermit
Cantankerous grump
Jimmy Higgins is wrong, but you picked the wrong article to make your point. It is a beatup the Sydney Morning Herald should have left to the gutter press.Is now a bad time to point out more guns are privately owned in Australia nowadays than were pre-Port Arthur?What he means is Australia's policies and restrictions during Covid-19, which saved the lives of tens of thousands of people, wouldn't have happened if Australia had guns. Which umm...
There is a common misinterpretation that the 1996 legislation was about banning firearms. It was about taking only the types of firearms out of circulation that were suitable for mass killings - semi-automatic and pump action guns.
The firearms increase from 3.2m to 3.6m between 1996 and 2017 represents a rise of 12.5%. In the same period Australia's population grew from 18.3m to 24.6m, that is by 34.4%.
