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Time for a new National Firearms Agreement
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'The findings of the report show that since 1997 licensed firearm owners have not been responsible for over 90 per cent of firearm related homicides. Most firearms used to commit homicide were not registered and their owners not licensed.'
Firstly, this equates to less than 10% of firearm homicides, not 15%.
Unfortunately, at the webpage your link points to, when I click on the references, the message both times is 'Sorry. What you’re looking for isn’t here at the moment'. I downloaded the paper, though and found nothing to support any claims of licence holders commiting murder with registered firearms since 1996 (even Monash wasn't mentioned). What was mentioned was a study done by the Home Office in 1996 where it was stated that 15% (could this be where you got your figure?) of firearms used in homicides in the period 1992-4 were 'legally held by someone—either the perpetrator, the victim, or an original owner from whom the firearm had been stolen'. Not exactly the same as 'About 15% of gun murders are by legal owners', more like 15% of guns used in murders belong to legal owners who may have had them stolen etc. Also, as this study was in England and Wales and pre-1996, how is it relevant?
After reviewing these statements, I still ask why the Monash shooting is the only one mentioned when the subject of homicide by licensed shooters and registered guns comes up. Does no-one else wonder why there are never any other examples given? Do these 'other examples' exist? Or can I go back to believing that the Monash shooting is the only incident since 1996?
I'm still open to actual evidence.