Comment Re:Question (Score 3, Informative) 219
'Australia banned guns: Sure, there are no school massacres but the murder rate hasn't decreased.'
You're reading the wrong newspaper, the Washington Post says otherwise.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
"So what have the Australian laws actually done for homicide and suicide rates? Howard cites a study (pdf) by Andrew Leigh of Australian National University and Christine Neill of Wilfrid Laurier University finding that the firearm homicide rate fell by 59 percent, and the firearm suicide rate fell by 65 percent, in the decade after the law was introduced, without a parallel increase in non-firearm homicides and suicides. That provides strong circumstantial evidence for the law's effectiveness."