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Arming people to stop gun crime is like starting a war to create peace. It will never work.
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Maybe so but getting rid of guns is as likely as eliminating war, so I think discussion should focus on more practical solutions.
For ex Australia's very tough gun regulations enacted in 1997 have helped greatly reduce gun violence in that country.
I think this approach makes more sense than arming college faculty with handguns so they can fight back against the guns that are so easy for crazed students to get.
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HALF a billion dollars spent buying back hundreds of thousands of guns after the Port Arthur massacre had no effect on the homicide rate, says a study published in an influential British journal.
The report by two Australian academics, published in the British Journal of Criminology, said statistics gathered in the decade since Port Arthur showed gun deaths had been declining well before 1996 and the buyback of more than 600,000 mainly semi-automatic rifles and pump-action shotguns had made no difference in the rate of decline.
Australian gun laws has no effect on murder rate