you are very wrong and people who just read this drivel without researching the facts cause problems.
You evidently did not read my drivel
I said I don't have any crime or murder rates, but there has not been a massacre since 97.
And the rates you gave were a representation of between 97-99 correct? Do you have any more current stats?
Gun control within Australia has stopped mass shootings and mass murders - best I know. I didn't claim it had stopped death and murder altogether. Of course people will still kill using whichever weapon they can. Hence the curb on bladed weapons. Of course, that too hasn't stopped much - there are still plenty of stabbings and even stabbing murders.
Infact, while I was at a music festival containing 25,000 people there was a very public stabbing murder. A girl I work with saw 2 men chase a third through the crowd, and stab him 7 times - including in the throat. He slumped and, I believe, died at the scene, or very shortly after.
But had Mr. Stabber been carrying a gun (there were no metal detectors or pat downs upon entering), he could have (much more easily) killed multiple people - in crossfire or on purpose.
Getting a knife in Australia is still a piece of piss, but I wouldn't have a clue as to where to find guns. Whereas I believe it's quite different in the US - very easy to find guns, no?
But again I will state that the US and Australia have very different cultures (gun cultures at least) and have done since the start. Trying to make American more like Australia, I'm sure, wouldn't work. My original point was that arming everyone isn't the answer. What the answer is, for American, I dunno - cos I'm Australian ;p