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Originally Posted by Niamh.
Gun Control works. Australia is the perfect example of that :
Last year a Reuters analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics figures showed that in 1996, Australia had had 311 murders, of which 98 involved guns. In 2014, when the population had increased from about 18 million to 23 million, 238 people were murdered, 35 by guns.
In other words, the likelihood of being murdered by gunshot fell by 72 per cent in that period, from 0.54 to 0.15 per 100,000 people, Reuters said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7980671.html |
That's probably also helped by Australia's lack of dense urban areas - the population density of Greater Melbourne is 450 people per square KM, which is the highest in Australia. Detroit has a population density of 4,878 persons per square mile.
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