>
> You're probably thinking of Austria.
>
> People who live in the country, or the bush as we call it,
> maybe 10 percent
> or less of the population I guess, often own those big long
> weapons you use
> to kill animals with. They tell the policeman about them, and
> he writes it
> down. Then when they kill humans the policeman knows who did it. This
> doesn't work very well, because a while back a young
> sociopath shot dead a
> lot of humans because he felt sad and rejected. Now he lives
> in jail and
> everyone hates him even more. They don't let him have his
> weapons in there.
i think you are underestimating the number of guns in australia. IIRC, the
estimates are between 4 and 5 million guns in the country. Granted, i've
seen very few people carrying guns around the city (all of them belonging to
the same state-funded organisation), but this doesn't mean that people don't
have access to them. In any case, gun related homicides rates seem to be a
fourth of the US's and gun related deaths a fifth (from the i assume pro-gun
control site http://www.iansa.org) and seemed to have dropped quite a chunk
since the tasmanian incident.
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