Australia shares the same love for guns as America. After a mass shooting, they banned all assault type weapons. Mass shootings down to zero , gun violence down by 60 %. Don’t say ‘America is different’. Every country that has enforced bans has seen mass shootings go down to 0.

Australia has a fraction of America’s population. This won’t work

It’s not the population, but the guns per capita that matters. Before the ban, Australia had a comparable ratio of per capita guns.

America is different – American has no counterpart, so this won’t work.

• Australia’s right said the same thing – ‘Australia has no counterpart, so this won’t work’.
• Except it did work! it took an unprecedented right/ left cooperation, but it did work.
• As have bans wherever they’ve been tried.

How do we get  thousands of guns possessed by convicted felons or gang members off the street?

1. We have to start somewhere.  Australia offered a cash buyback – no questions asked. That could be a good starting point – won’t get all felons, but that could be Step 1.
2. Step 2 could be actual enforcement (what Japan does). Police confiscations of any AR weapons.You tell me – but we have to start somewhere.

Summary – A two step solution to ending mass shootings

Start with a cash buyback of all assault style rifles.  Follow up the buybacks with actual police enforcements of folks still illegally hanging on to their ARs.  This has worked EVERYWHERE that it has been implemented.

Shouldn’t we at least try them before we make the same blatant claim that ‘it won’t work’

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