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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Hans Der Weiner  wrote   
      
   > NCJ Number 224636   
   > Author(s)   
   > Wang-Sheng Lee;   
   > Sandy Suardi   
   > Date Published August 2008   
   > Length 29 pages   
   > Annotation   
   > This working paper examines the effects of the Australian National   
   > Firearms Agreement (NFA) on gun deaths.   
   > Abstract   
   > The 1996-1997 NFA in Australia introduced strict gun laws, primarily as a   
   > reaction to the mass shooting in Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996 where 35   
   > people were killed. Using a battery of structural break tests, there is   
   > little evidence to suggest that it had any significant effects on firearm   
   > homicides and suicides.   
      
   Just another bare faced lie. We have in fact have never had   
   another mass shooting of a significant number of individuals   
   by one shooter who were not known to the shooter since.   
      
      
      
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