claim: says since australia passed tough gun laws, "homicides by firearm have declined almost 60 percent."
author: stephen king
evidence_1: oct 4, 2017 ... he killed nearly 60 people and wounded more than 500 others. in 1996,  australia passed the national firearms agreement after a mass shooting ...  article, showing a 20 percent decline in homicides from 1996 to 2007. we wrote  at the time: “have murders increased since the gun law change, as claimed?
evidence_2: dec 4, 2015 ... australia has had no killings of five or more since a 1996 rampage spurred a ...  on the campaign trail, hillary clinton has said the australian approach ... since  the nation significantly tightened its gun control laws almost 20 years ago. ... that  removed more than 20 percent of firearms from public circulation.
evidence_3: nov 5, 2017 ... the shooting has already led to discussions about gun control. ... before: after  every mass shooting, the debate over guns and gun violence sparks up once  again. ... the us has nearly six times the gun homicide rate as canada, more ...  of mass shooters (up to 60 percent) have some kind of psychiatric or ...
evidence_4: jul 30, 2015 ... recent reports have also examined the number of illicit firearms and firearm  thefts in australia. ... prior to this incident, gun laws in australia could be seen as  relatively .... be issued after a waiting period of not less than twenty-eight days, ....  while the number of firearms homicides has continued to decline, ...
evidence_5: oct 2, 2017 ... 1) america has six times as many firearm homicides as canada, ... 2) america  has 4.4 percent of the world's population, but almost half of ... obama mentioned  gun control after a mass shooting in charleston, ... the good news is that all  firearm homicides, like all homicides and crime, have declined over ...