How Australia has achieved that since 1996, there has not been a single mass execution

22 A year ago, Australia’s largest massacre was committed in Port Arthur, killing 35 people and injuring 22. The then Prime Minister John Howard made it clear: Australia will not be like the United States, writes USA Today.

“I was afraid that this country would go the American way with gun ownership,” Howard recalls.

After the incident, the Australian authorities have revised weapons control measures. A week after the incident, a rapid-fire weapon was banned in the country in order to reduce the mass executions, and then they were offered to buy banned firearms from the population.

Studies have shown that it worked. Thus, according to a study by the University of Sydney 2016, in Australia, since 1996, there have not been fatal mass executions where five or more people would have died. At the same time, in previous 18 years, from 1979 to 1996 a year, 13 has been recorded in Australia for mass executions.

The numbers also showed that in Australia, the number of deaths from firearms has drastically decreased since 1996 after the changes made. The number of suicides with the use of weapons has also decreased, but researchers are not sure that legislative changes have affected this.

At least one researcher claims that legislative changes have affected the shooting situation in Australia.

“Australia's experience shows that bans on rapid-fire firearms have led to a reduction in mass shootings and deaths,” said University of Sydney professor Simon Chapman.

"This finding illustrates that with public support and political courage, it is possible to reduce gun deaths in other countries," the scientist said.

Recall, February 14 in high school in Parkland, Florida, shooting occurred as a result of which at least 17 people killed and several injured. It is reported that first the attacker triggered a fire alarm that caused a panic at school, and then opened fire on the people running.

The shooter was a former student of this school. 19-year-old Nicholas Cruz. The motives of the shooter are currently not established, but it is known that he had previously been expelled from this educational institution for disciplinary reasons, calling it a “threat” to students. A young man who was adopted at birth by an elderly couple, has recently suffered from depression. His father died when the boy was still young, and his mother was buried just 3 a month ago.

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