Is Mise

"....there were no mass shootings in those 200 years."

Perhaps you choose not to include the slaughter by guns through the armed rebellions of Castle Hill (1804) and the Eureka Rebellion Massacre(1854.) And of course the indigenous Australians were mowed down en-masse and quick smart by some trigger happy new arrivals in Australia in 1788, weren't they?

Have you considered in your equations, that at the turn of the 20th century, Australia only had 3.7 million inhabitants and some 7.7 million by 1950?

With the increased urbanization of Australia's populations, interest in guns waned considerably for a period.

Enter the period between 1979 - 1996, there were 11,299 deaths from gunshot wounds - averaging some 628 deaths per year. This is a significant figure for any "sporting" body! How many footballers, swimmers, golfers, basketballers, athletes etc die each year from participating in their chosen sport or from improper handling of their sporting equipment?

Irrespective of your sceptical opinion on statistics, they are the most factual accounts we can derive for Australia's history.

You may choose to reject those facts but surely that only lessens your credibility in this debate?

Dickie,
Please forward me these stats you speak of, I would be quite interested and would like to compare a few things of my own.
Thanks

Dickie,

Yes please, put in your references. I would like to be able to access the info as well.

But what about the criminals?

Sorry about the lack of references in my previous posts, chaps.

Is there an easier way for me to transfer references to the forum rather than hand copying them, then typing into here? *%*&?%###!

http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/site/supersite/contact/pdfs/2006_InjuryPrevent.pdf

http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/briefs/firearm_deaths_2005

Dickie,

Right click on the URL in the address bar and the URL should be highlighted, at the same time a 'drop-down' will appear.

Left click on 'copy'.

Open the Write New Post or wherever you are writing.

Right click again and on the drop down click 'paste' and the URL (or whatever else you wished to copy) will appear.

I used to laboriously copy URLs until I asked, as you did.
I've been using computers now for 15 years and still learning ! !.

Ah....bliss!

Thanks for that Is Mise.