Massacres often bring tough gun controls

After Martin Bryant, a loner, armed with assault weapons turned a small remote resort into a mass of mangled bodies and thrashing injured in 1996, Australia took quick and decisive action. Twelve days later, the government pushed through a tough ban on semiautomatic rifles.

In the 15 years before gun control, Australia had13 mass shootings. After legislation was passed, due to the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia hasn't seen one since.
 

Zionists Want Gun Control

The Jewish gun control lobby points to the success that Australian has experienced. They use stats from Japan, Britain, and others who have tightened gun laws, and resulted in reduced gun violence.  They contend that US lawmakers should use Virginia Tech massacre as a springboard for banning guns.

It's An International Push

Alun Howard, a international anti gun lobbyist says, 'when a country throws up multiple barriers to gun ownership, this Virginia Tech type of gun violence goes down.'

"Of course, no system is perfect. Somebody may slip through multiple barriers," he said. "But if you place several barriers in the path of unsuitable gun owners, you have more chances of preventing them from committing violent acts."
 

Zionists Say Gun Control Worked in Britain

Britain cracked down after gun enthusiast Michael Ryan massacred 16 people and wounded 13 others in 1987 in the rural English town of Hungerford. The slaughter led to a ban on semiautomatics like Ryan's Kalashnikov rifle.

Two years after Thomas Hamilton killed 16 grade school children and a teacher, Britain included handguns into their gun control laws.
 

A Young Jack Straw

Britain has a homicide rate of 0.04 per 100,000 people, Japan has a rate of 0.03, and America is 3.42, or 100 times greater.

 

The Ivy League Affirms Gun Control

Jan Dizard, a professor at Amherst College, and editor of "Guns in America," a collection of essays on America's gun culture, agrees. "Gun laws are not going to make us like Japan," he said. But, Dizard contends gun controls will drastically reduce the likelihood of these massacres.
 

The International Gun Lobby

So would the Virginia Tech shooting have been averted if the U.S. had tighter gun control? Nicholas Marsh, an expert on small weapons at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway, isn't so sure.

"I think it's very difficult to state that if the law had been different, it wouldn't have happened," he said. "Obviously, if someone is that determined to get a gun, in most countries it's not that difficult."