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   Klaus  Schadenfreude  wrote   
   in news:52v2kktb5o58jesh8kuluofgqdus1ip3sr@Is.Rudy.Canoza.dead.yet.com:   
      
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   >>Klaus  Schadenfreude >@gmail.com> wrote in   
   >>news:e8r0kk5b4arq96987pdtkv2o216je6ng5v@Is.Rudy.Canoza.dead.yet   
   >>.com:   
   >>   
   >>> [Default]  Webbster  typed:   
   >>>   
   >>>>Klaus  Schadenfreude >@gmail.com> wrote   
   >>>>in   
   >>news:inrvjk53b7ren0jptlv46hv1v4c615vdio@Is.Rudy.Canoza.dead.yet   
   >>.com:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Australia's Machete Amnesty WORKS! None killed with machete   
   >>on Bondi   
   >>>>> Beach!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Australian state rolls out machete ‘disposal bins’ ahead of   
   >>ban   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> An Australian state has asked citizens to surrender   
   >>machetes at   
   >>>>> disposal bins ahead of a statewide ban on the weapons aimed   
   >>at   
   >>>>> combating knife crime.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Australia’s state of Victoria on Thursday announced that   
   >>more than 40   
   >>>>> machete disposal bins will be available at police stations   
   >>across the   
   >>>>> state to allow citizens to safely get rid of the weapons   
   >>without a   
   >>>>> penalty before the Sept. 1 ban begins.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> “Owning, carrying, using, buying, or selling a machete   
   >>without a valid   
   >>>>> exemption or approval will be a criminal offense,” the   
   >>Victorian   
   >>>>> government said in a statement.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The government is running a “Machete Amnesty” period from   
   >>Sept. 1 to   
   >>>>> Nov. 30 to support the safe disposal of machetes. Those who   
   >>do not   
   >>>>> surrender their machetes during the amnesty period may face   
   >>>>> imprisonment of up to two years or a fine of more than   
   >>$47,000 AUD   
   >>>>> ($31,725 US dollars).   
   >>>>   
   >>>>KKKlaun continues his goulish dance of glee that AU had a   
   >>notible mass   
   >>>>shooting after so many years. He celebrated not the hero that   
   >>disarmed   
   >>>>one of the attackers, rather he finds glee in the number of   
   >>dead and   
   >>>>wounder.   
   >>>   
   >>> Baxter is too fucking stupid to realize they had a mass   
   >>shooting in   
   >>> OCTOBER of this year.   
   >   
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   >>============   
   >>Prior to the passage of the NFA [National Firearms Agreement],   
   >>Australia had millions of guns. The NFA established a national   
   >>gun registry, a 28-day waiting period for buying a gun, strict   
   >>gun-licensing rules, and other provisions.¹ The result was that   
   >>gun-related murders declined and mass shootings more or less   
   >>disappeared. This account is from a 2016 assessment of the   
   >>NFA’s effects:   
   >>   
   >>    The risk of an Australian dying by gunshot remains less   
   >>than half what it was before Port Arthur. Research shows that   
   >>murderers did not move to other methods.   
   >>   
   >>    But although Australia hasn’t seen a public mass shooting   
   >>since 1996, we have no shortage of firearm-related crime. Gun   
   >>owners who know each other well – be they family members or   
   >>gang members – have always been the ones to kill each other   
   >>most frequently.   
   >>   
   >>    Then there’s the killer already in the room. About 80% of   
   >>gun deaths in Australia have nothing to do with crime. Instead,   
   >>they’re suicides and unintentional shootings.   
   >>   
   >>So:   
   >>   
   >>    People in Australia still own guns.   
   >>   
   >>    The NFA did not stop all gun violence.   
   >>   
   >>    But it seriously curbed the kind of random gun violence   
   >>that is most preventable. And it all but eliminated mass   
   >>shootings.   
   >   
   > Note how Baxter does not-- and CAN not-- deny that there was a mass   
   > shooting in Australia in October of this year.   
   >   
      
   Has no bearing on the fact that AU gun control works.   
   Gun apologist.   
      
   But you can't handwave away this:   
   ======================   
   Key Comparisons   
      
       Overall Rates: The U.S. gun death rate is significantly higher (e.g.,   
   13.7 per 100,000 in 2023) compared to Australia (around 0.88 per 100,000   
   in 2018), a difference of about 12 to 15 times, notes USA Today, Forbes.   
      
       Gun Murders: In a recent period, the US had about 18,000 gun   
   homicides (5.6 per 100,000), while Australia had only 31 (0.09 per   
   100,000) in a comparable period, showing the US's rate is ~62 times   
   higher, notes Forbes.   
      
       Mass Shootings: After implementing strict laws, Australia saw a   
   dramatic drop in mass shootings (from 12 before 1996 to just four in the   
   29 years after), whereas the U.S. experiences hundreds annually, reports   
   USA Today, Gun Violence Archive   
      
      
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