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Old 01-14-2013, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Hitchens [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Unless someone has done so in the last five or six pages of replies I didn't read, no one is saying that Australia's ban on certain types of firearms results in less overall violence. The argument is that Australia's ban on certain types of firearms has resulted in the stopping of mass shootings.
I graced on the subject of that being inaccurate based on the article's definition of "mass shootings." But that is besides the point, the number of mass shootings is a terrible metric to illustrate the effectiveness of gun control.
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