Politician from Australia criticized the U.S. for refusing to gun reform

Politician from Australia criticized the U.S. for refusing to gun reform

Australian politician Andrew Li criticized the United States for the number of mass shooting in the country, including an incident in Texas. In his Twitter he gave the example of USA and Australia and strengthened an example of a list of mass shootings in his country in the period from 1979 to 2016. Tweet of the policy the next day after the events in Sutherland springs, Texas, which killed 26 people.

Dear US friends: here’s the Australian mass shootings 1979-2016 (via @SimonChapman6). See if you can figure out when we passed our gun reforms. pic.twitter.com/r8ZI9rtP4U

— Andrew Leigh (@ALeighMP) December 6, 2017

«Dear friends from the USA. Here are the statistics of mass shooting in Australia over the period from 1979 to 2016. Try to guess when we introduced gun reform

If previously participated in a study that proved the drop in the number of mass shootings in Australia after the gun reforms when the government banned semi-automatic rifles and pump-action weapons, and organized the purchase of firearms.

The research established that after the adoption of the reform in 1997, the country has not been a single mass murder, and there was a decline in the number of deaths from firearms. Prior to the adoption of the law in the period between 1979 and 1996 in Australia had 13 mass shootings.

Recent events in America has pushed Democrats to the resumption of disputes over gun reform. Recall that trump said that the cause of the shooting was unbalanced psyche of the shooter.

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