From what Humerox's study reported, Australia suffered from 13 mass shootings between 1979 and 1996. These resulted in 104 deaths, or what works out to 8 deaths per year. It should also be noted that the statistics are naturally skewed, as the study uses a 35-death massacre as the cut-off point between 'before' and 'after'. In other words, before that course-altering mass shooting, there had been 69 Australian deaths due to mass shootings over the course of the past 17 years -- which works out to about 4 per year.
Explain to me why such measures aren't alarmist, and why Australia's successful elimination of an almost non-existent problem should serve as a model for a country like the US.
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