The solution to guns is simple.

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15. The differences between here and Australia are quite significant

First, Australia did not confiscate handguns; rather, they imposed a stringent licensing and registration regime. As for semi-automatic seasons and certain shotguns, Australia did impose a mandatory buy back regime. Keep in mind that when Australia implemented its gun buy-back, the population of the country was 18 million. Both Texas and Florida are bigger than that. And the buy back resulted in the purchase by the government of 650,000 weapons. There are over 20 million semi-automatic weapons in the United States today, spread over a population of over 300 million. Finally, the Australian buy-back took around 20 percent of the firearms in the country out of circulation, meaning a lot of guns remained in private hands.

Without doubt, getting semi-automatics out of circulation would be a good thing. And more stringent licensing and registration would be terrific. But it would be far more difficult to implement and enforce such a regime in the US than it was in Australia.