From today's New York Times, Former Australian P.M John Howard on Australia's internationally respected Gun Laws which were instituted in the wake of the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre.
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......University of Sydney research shows that Australians destroyed more than a million guns in response to shooting massacres but imports have restored the stockpile to the level it was at before the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. Read more Here
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"I was elected prime minister in early 1996, leading a center-right coalition. Virtually every non urban electoral district in the country — where gun ownership was higher than elsewhere — sent a member of my coalition to Parliament.
Six weeks later, on April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant, a psychologically disturbed man, used a semiautomatic Armalite rifle and a semiautomatic SKS assault weapon to kill 35 people in a murderous rampage in Port Arthur, Tasmania.
After this wanton slaughter, I knew that I had to use the authority of my office to curb the possession and use of the type of weapons that killed 35 innocent people. I also knew it wouldn’t be easy. Read more Here
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