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Originally Posted by woj
it's not clear how banning "assault style weapons" would "curb media sensationalism of mass shootings" or even "curb mas shootings" in the first place? If "assault style weapons" are banned, then obviously the nutjob would use a different weapon, perhaps an ordinary handgun, a pipe bomb, or any of dozens of other possible weapons, which seems at best would be only marginally less lethal and news worthy?
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In Australia we've had 3 'lone wolf' terror attacks. The result has been 3 dead terrorists + 3 innocent victims. The weapons used by the terrorists was a knife, a shot gun, a revolver.
Australia changed it's gun laws in 1996 with the primary intention of limiting mass shootings. The result, no mass shootings in 20 years.
Organized criminals still have guns in Australia but they tend to shoot other criminals.
Criminals robing convenience stores or houses do use knives now instead of guns, but a bad guy with a knife is no match for a good guy with a baseball bat.
An important point about the Australian law changes is that it took a conservative government to say 'enough is enough.'