>>>>I saw this article on Yahoo news today:
>>>>http://news.yahoo.com/dozens-venezuelan-shot-police-amid-crime-crackdown-040408127.html
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>>>>Then I Googled Venezuela Gun Laws and came across this one (dated in 2012):
>>>>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-18288430
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>>>
>>>Maybe Australia has it figured out???
>>>http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/us-commentators-call-for-australian-style-gun-law-reform/story-fnu2q5nu-1227506823428
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>>It didn't take me long to find 3 incidents of mass shootings in Australia after their huge control law went into action.
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>>7 people shot (two fatally) at Monash....7 people shot (three fatally) at Hectorville, and then the Hunt family murders.
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>>By the way, NPR tried to report that Australia had NO mass shootings since the new laws started.
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>I haven't looked into it for a while - but I was under the impression that had a LOT less gun violence problems than the USA. And yes they've had mass shootings too, but surely a lot less than us???

Quibbling over statistics is useless, Victor.
Until people wake up one day and realize that it is a priori insane that someone can buy weapons that can kill dozens of people, all the statistics are meaningless.
Believe it or not though, it happens.
I almost cried in 1980 when I had to accept the fact that my gas-guzzling 1976 Olds 98 company automobile would be replaced by something almost 2 feet shorter and a thousands pounds lighter- "No way" I said "This little thing is too vulnerable on the road." Of course "this little thing" was a monster compared to what I'm driving today.
When I show my grandkids pictures of that big Olds 98 they say.. "You actually drove that thing?"

Now, no one with a sound mind would want to go back to those monsters.
They were a priori insane, I now realize.
However, the government had to force us to make that change and there was lots of resistance- and there still is resistance to emissions standards- but it worked.

Don't quibble. It will happen when the government shows leadership and that hasn't happened.