REMEMBERING
• The tragedy that occurred in 1996 was the Port Arthur massacre where a disturbed young man gunned down dozens of innocent people.
• According to this article Australia is similar to the US because Australia has a frontier history and a strong gun culture.
• Today the Australian gun deaths per 100,000 are under 1, this is one-tenth to the US this refers to all gun deaths, homicide, suicide and unintentional.
• Two of the 1996 gun reforms put in place were, making gun control laws stronger and uniform across Australia and had the world’s biggest gun buyback seeing nearly 700,000 guns removed from circulation.
• The three gun factors of owning a gun in Australia is, the applicants age, criminal convictions and (A) designed for killing or (B) highly coveted by people who …show more content…
The tragedy ignited an explosion of public outrage, soul-searching and demands for better regulation of guns
E- As a result of the new gun control laws in 1996, semi-automatic guns were prohibited with some narrow exceptions and we had the world’s biggest gun buy-back. That gun buy-back had about 700,000 guns out of circulation and destroyed which meant that those guns could go in the hands of people that commit crimes.
E- Having the ban on semi-automatic guns prevents people from the public purchasing those particular types of guns that can be used in massacres. To acquire a hand gun in Australia, you need to get the handgun licence and you need take part regularly in a shooting club, this prevents people buying guns and committing massacres or other gun related offences.
T- The significant and main difference between American and Australia is that, Australia does-not accept killing another person (as self-defence) a justifiable reason to own a
• The tragedy that occurred in 1996 was the Port Arthur massacre where a disturbed young man gunned down dozens of innocent people.
• According to this article Australia is similar to the US because Australia has a frontier history and a strong gun culture.
• Today the Australian gun deaths per 100,000 are under 1, this is one-tenth to the US this refers to all gun deaths, homicide, suicide and unintentional.
• Two of the 1996 gun reforms put in place were, making gun control laws stronger and uniform across Australia and had the world’s biggest gun buyback seeing nearly 700,000 guns removed from circulation.
• The three gun factors of owning a gun in Australia is, the applicants age, criminal convictions and (A) designed for killing or (B) highly coveted by people who …show more content…
The tragedy ignited an explosion of public outrage, soul-searching and demands for better regulation of guns
E- As a result of the new gun control laws in 1996, semi-automatic guns were prohibited with some narrow exceptions and we had the world’s biggest gun buy-back. That gun buy-back had about 700,000 guns out of circulation and destroyed which meant that those guns could go in the hands of people that commit crimes.
E- Having the ban on semi-automatic guns prevents people from the public purchasing those particular types of guns that can be used in massacres. To acquire a hand gun in Australia, you need to get the handgun licence and you need take part regularly in a shooting club, this prevents people buying guns and committing massacres or other gun related offences.
T- The significant and main difference between American and Australia is that, Australia does-not accept killing another person (as self-defence) a justifiable reason to own a