Speculate all you want. I looked at the numbers. You should too.
By the way, give me some credible evidence that someone who wants to off themselves doesn't because they have no gun. Since you wanted to bring it up.
Um, arson is murder around here. Plus people died. Murdered. Knives, cars, all the dead were murdered. I gave you the numbers. Did you miss it or ignore it. Did you also ignore the post about where there was no significant change in the number of murder victims. Come on, try and keep here.
You got your panties in a wad over the term massacre, which I defined for you in another post you must have ignored. Yet all I care about is whether gun control stops the death toll. Doesn't seem to have much effect on you Aussies. You just kill in other ways.
I've decided to follow Tofu Roshi.
"Dear Tofu Roshi,
I can't get my dog to sit on his meditation cushion. Could I just tie the zafu cushion to the dog for fourty minutes?
Doggoned
Dear Doggoned,
When your dog won't sit, which are you tying, the dog or the zafu? Practicing with this question...
And gun control doesn't seem to help. People murder their kids with knives instead. Much more humane.
Cairns Child Killing, Australia: 8 dead by a knife.