The U.S. is currently experiencing almost one mass shooting PER DAY. After a mass shooting in 1996, Australia swiftly enacted stricter gun-control legislation, and it hasn't had a mass shooting SINCE.
"New gun laws prohibited private sales, required that all weapons be individually registered to their owners, and required that gun buyers present a “genuine reason” for needing each weapon at the time of the purchase. (Self-defense did not count.)" It also bought back more than 600,000 firearms.
Homicides by firearm plunged 59% in 11 years, suicides by gun dropped 65%, and there hasn't been a single mass shooting in Australia since. Please act NOW.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2012/12/16/gun_control_after_connecticu...