I recognize we have the Second Amendment in the US and that cannot be ignored. At the same time, something is very wrong with American society where shootings have become commonplace and nothing seems to be done to resolve the crisis.
The murder rate per capita and gun crime rate per capita are both much higher in the United States than in Australia, which has stricter firearm laws. Yes, you can murder someone with a kitchen knife or a garden hoe, but it's more difficult for a variety of reasons. Mass murder with a non-firearm weapon is infinitely more difficult.
Australia had several mass shootings in the later twentieth century and significantly revised its firearm laws as a result. True, the country had no Second Amendmen equivalent. But at least Australians said "enough is enough" and decided to do something about it.
Meanwhile, in the United States, I would be very surprised if anything significant changes because of this latest massacre. As an American living outside my homeland, I am hard pressed to answer when asked to explain why that is the state of affairs.
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Australia also has a much more restrictive immigration policy.
They do not let anybody in. They have no problem sending migrants to an island.
And do you really feel that there is any gun control that would of prevented this Muslim savage from finding a way to kill people?
I have to laugh that you live in Idaho and you're lecturing me, a foreign immigrant to Australia, about what immigration is like here.
Your claim is nothing short of horseshit. One quarter of present Australian population are immigrants. The percentage of immigrant residents here is higher than in the United States.
Current immigration stats for Australia are about 200,000 per year, an all time high. Immigration intake is slightly under 1 percent per year based on existing population size. In the US current immigration stats are slightly under 1 million per year or about one-third of 1 percent per year. So that means per capita the immigration intake rate in Australia is about three times what it is in the US.
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