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ChainedRedone posted...

Any ban on semiautomatic rifles likely would have. Australia had multiple mass shooting involving semiautl rifles and once they were banned, they stopped completely.

1) Australia's "ban" didn't remove the guns. 2/3 of the guns are still in the hands of their owners.
2) Mass shootings in Australia were already rare before their "ban" so having few mass shootings afterward is statistically negligible.
3) After Australia's gun ban, their homicide rate declined at a slower rate than the US' did after that period.
5) The trend in Australia's homicide rate did not decline at any faster rate than it was already declining before their ban.
6) Even if the US did go directly against the Constitution and implement a buyback program like Australia's, not only would Americans be way less likely to turn theirs in than Australians, but there's such an enormous supply of guns in private hands already that it would only create a black market of firearms unregulated by the ATF.
7) Rifles are used in less than 1% of gun homicides, and the worst school shooting in history was committed with handguns. Banning rifles is nonsensical from a statistical point of view and there's no reason whatsoever to believe it would stop mass shootings.
8) There has never been a causal connection made between gun bans and lower gun homicides.

Any other ideas?
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