This might help:

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/26/nsw-labors-interim-leader-pushes-for-ban-on-donations-from-firearms-lobby

Foxy,

"In international terms, the United States is an
extremely violent society, with a homicide rate
far exceeding that of any other industrialised nation"

You mean that Russia is not industrialised?

Anyhow what has industrialization got to do with it?

Some of the tourist spots in the Carribean have a murder rate far exceeding that of the US.

Belly,

"As you know too domestic disputes would see far more deaths if we had the American laws"

We have 3,573,000 firearms in Australia in civilian hands and of these 3,158,795 are registered and an estimated 414,205 are unlicenced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country

So why do we not have a commensurate rate of domestic dispute deaths?

Perhaps because the number of firearms in a community has nothing to do with it.

...further, we never had to fight for independence, and we do not have a constitutional right to bear arms. Comparing us with America on this matte totally inappropriate and daft.

I meant to add, this is just another case of leftist malcontents looking for problems where none exist.

Issy, as I've said to you before, firearms in the community should be on a needs basis, very restrictive. Its my view that recreational nonsense is not part of that basis and the vast majority of the 3.5 million you speak of should be in the crushing machine.

Those far right pro gun organisations in Australia I mentioned, continually try to white-ant our fairly robust gun laws at every opportunity. Why did they give such big donations to the Bob Nutter Party? Because Bob supports lax gun laws!