Originally Posted by ImmortalPig

Since the ban has been instated the upward trend in fire arm homicide has been reversed and firearm related homicide in Australia is at an all time low.

http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide.html

If you noticed although the gun related homicides dropped, the rate of homicides actually stayed very consistent with the trend that began before the ban was even instated.

Gun related homicide is merely 10% of that of USA's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ted_death_rate

Let's not forget to mention that crime rates have dropped in the US without the help of a gun ban. Almost 70% of homicides in the US are gun related, but that's only because of the availability. That doesn't mean the same amount of homicides can't be committed with other weapons or illegal firearms.

A long term policy cannot be determined by just 12 months of observation. Obviously there will be a knee jerk reaction.

Each country is a separate entity and you definitely can't say "a country with less guns has less gun incidents", but taking any individual country you can say "if there was less guns there would be less gun incidents" - barring if a country is an active warzone of course!

The point I brought up is that the amount of guns does not coordinate with the amount of homicides. The amount of homicides is based more on factors like police effectiveness, social standards, political situations, and things like that.