>>Here is another site (Australian) that shows the number of guns to about 30/100 civilians in NZ in 2016.
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/new-zealandUnlike Australia, most firearms in NZ are not registered, with lots of international purchases making it difficult to guess. What we can be sure of, is practically no handguns.
>>I agree, there may be underlying reasons. But if there are, restrict access to guns (and especially the most lethal ones) until we figure them out.
Interested to know how you think this restriction would work. Do you anticipate a gun buy-back program like the Aussies with the state effectively purchasing back weapons it wants out of civilian hands? Or are purchase restrictions sufficient despite 101 firearms per 100 population already in circulation?
FWIW, the first US gun buyback program was in Baltimore in 1974. It was deemed a failure after firearm crime rose during the program.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
