Do you drive roughly the speed limit? Do you wear a seatbelt? Do you register your car? Pay Taxes? If yes, you already bend to the will of the government. As y'all like to say to me regarding Trump, "He's your President" whether I like it or not. Ditto to any new national gun regulations. They would be "your gun control laws" too. You're welcome to break them, but there would be potential consequences.
The Australian government banned automatic and semiautomatic firearms, adopted new licensing requirements, established a national firearms registry, and instituted a 28-day waiting period for gun purchases. It also bought and destroyed more than 600,000 civilian-owned firearms, in a scheme that cost half a billion dollars and was funded by raising taxes.
The number of mass shootings in Australiadefined as incidents in which a gunman killed five or more people other than himself, which is notably a higher casualty count than is generally applied for tallying mass shootings in the U.S.dropped from 13 in the 18-year period before 1996 to zero after the Port Arthur massacre. Between 1995 and 2006, gun-related homicides and suicides in the country dropped by 59 percent and 65 percent, respectively, though these declines appear to have since leveled off. Two academics who have studied the impact of the reform initiative estimate that the gun-buyback program saves at least 200 lives each year, according to The New York Times.
