Does Gun Control Successfully Stop Mass Shootings in Other Countries?

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Peter Dejong

Because of what I do, I have to read a lot of op-eds written by anti-gunners. I don’t write about most of them. I don’t even finish a lot of them because that much stupid can’t be good for your brain.

Yet there are common themes that I see, themes I’m sure you’ve all seen time and time again as well.

In particular, in the wake of a mass shooting, the anti-gunners make claims about how gun laws in other nations effectively ended mass shootings. The arguments are made over and over again.

Unfortunately, they’re all total crap.

Let’s start with Australia, a favorite of anti-gunners right now.

Anti-gunners argue that following the 1996 Port Arthur mass shooting that killed 39 people, Australia enacted strict gun control and hasn’t had a mass shooting since.

Except, the country has. Using the FBI definition of a mass killing–three or more people killed in a single event–the Hunt family murder in 2014 had a husband murder his wife and three children with a firearm. There’s also the Wright St. Bikie murders which were the result of a biker gang feud.

Look, if you’re going to use gang- and drug-related murders in your mass shooting statistics, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms