WOW!! You hit the nail on the head.

There is nothing I can add to this.

Everything you said is true.

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I don’t know for sure, but I doubt if there were any mass shootings like Port Arthur in the 200 or so years of Australian history up to that point.

So, isn’t it more likely that there haven’t been any more such shootings since, only because those things are very rare here?

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In ref to the Port Arthur shootings and this quoted lunacy: “There has not been a mass shooting in Australia since.”

While this may be true the Australian’s have just picked each other off one at a time vice in groups since this law was enacted.

HALF a billion dollars spent buying back hundreds of thousands of guns after the Port Arthur massacre had no effect on the homicide rate, says a study published in an influential British journal.

The report by two Australian academics, published in the British Journal of Criminology, said statistics gathered in the decade since Port Arthur showed gun deaths had been declining well before 1996 and the buyback of more than 600,000 mainly semi-automatic rifles and pump-action shotguns had made no difference in the rate of decline.

The only area where the package of Commonwealth and State laws, known as the National Firearms Agreement (NFA) may have had some impact was on the rate of suicide, but the study said the evidence was not clear and any reductions attributable to the new gun rules were slight.

“Homicide patterns (firearm and non-firearm) were not influenced by the NFA, the conclusion being that the gun buyback and restrictive legislative changes had no influence on firearm homicide in Australia,” the study says.

Didn’t work out as planned did it?

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Sorry, I hit post before I finished my point.

Generally crime related shoots (drugs, money, etc.) may have gone up with violence in the ’60s. Although I don’t have a good source to link at the moment, the ‘senseless’ shoots are apparently more recent. That’s consistent with my memory of things.

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I just came from a thread where someone posted a list of school shootings that were some nut attempting a spree.

They listed on 4 from 1975 to 1990. They were all in Canada.

1990 and later there were over 30.

1990 is also when ‘gun-free school zones’ really took off nationally.

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