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Australia really was amazing, I'll give you that.
Between 1990 and 2015 their homicide rate dropped by 50 percent.
And let's not forget England banning guns. Their homicide rate dropped by 20% in the same period.
Canada too - they put out some gun restrictions and theirs dropped by 29%.
How about Germany? Also 29%.
Meanwhile, the barbaric US's homicide rate... also halved.
The 90s were just relatively violent everywhere, and the drop in homicide rates isn't actually really correlated with firearm restrictions. There are people who will say that guns reduce homicides, but that doesn't really play out statistically either. In college I did an epidemiological analysis of homicides and other violent crime (US only data) and firearm legislation didn't have a statistically-significant impact in either direction from state to state looking at numbers between 1980 and 2015.
I found that anti-gun people and pro-gin people were both mad at me for "being on the other side" because it's become so fucking politicized that nobody wants to even look at data that doesn't jibe with the echo chamber.
There is a correlation between handguns and suicides -largely due to the effectiveness of the first attempt. Though oddly enough not in Australia, where taking the guns away just made people kill themselves in other ways: