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SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
7. Here's the thing.
Sun Jun 12, 2016, 05:23 PM
Jun 2016

Other countries don't allow such easy access to guns. And, isn't it just strange that they don't get anywhere near the number of gun deaths as this country does? And DON'T bother to bring up the few, the rare mass shootings that have happened in other countries recently.

I just like to remind everyone that after the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996 Australia basically took guns away from most people and -- I know it's unfathomable -- they have not had a single mass shooting since. Could that *possibly* be related to the guns?

And if you think otherwise, and if you try to say that there are still lots of shootings in Australia, you're wrong. Just look at this chart:

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