Ok you wanted the facts, here they are, and yes I am going to use Australia as the example because the Laws were similar to Amercia before their reforms were brought in from 1996.
Because I can’t post links yet, instead of the *** insert www
***.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/australia
***.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states
*Key Statistics- Australia:
- Total Gun Deaths 1996: 516
- Total Gun Deaths 2010: 236, less than half of the gun deaths of 1996. 2012 which isn’t quoted in the statistics were less than 200 gun deaths. In the 1980’s the number’s were up close to 700.
- Rate of Gun deaths per 100,000 People 1996: 2.82
- Rate of Gun deaths per 100,000 People 2010: 1.06 (number of deaths have gone down while the population has considerably gone up). One of the lowest rates in the world.
- Rate of Firearm possession per 100 people: 15 (one of the lowest rates in the world)
*Key Statistics- USA
- Total Gun Deaths 1999: 28,874
- Total Gun Deaths 2011: 32,163
- Rate of Gun Deaths 2011: 10.3 per 100,000 people. One of the worst/highest rates in the world. 10 times more likely to be shot dead by a Gun than in Australia.
- Rate of Firearm possession per 100 people: 88.8 (USA is ranked the highest in the world, all them guns don’t seem to be doing you much good is it?)
So there is your evidence, real world facts and statistics of 1) how gun reform works and 2) how atrocious Americas statistics are. Yes Australia’s actual numbers are much lower that’s because of the difference in population. I would much rather live in a country with less than 200 Gun deaths per year with a population of almost 25 million, and again most of the deaths there are bikie/gang/drug related so it's just the scum killing eachother. So, I might just book the next flight after all.