GUN CONTROL Dante Chavez DUNBLANE SCOTLAND Wednesday March

GUN CONTROL Dante Chavez

DUNBLANE, SCOTLAND • Wednesday March 13 th 1996 • Dunblane Primary School • Thomas Hamilton • 43 • Scout leader • • • Gym 4 handguns 3 minutes 16 children 1 teacher

RESULTS • British government bans private ownership of automatic weapons and handguns • Gang weapon of choice: knife • Only 2% of cops carry guns • 55 homicides in one year • One or two were shootings

TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA • Sunday April 28 1996 • Port Arthur • Martin Bryant • 48 • He had money • • • Colt AR-15 SP 1 carbine & L 1 A 1 SLR battle riffle A day 20 in the first 90 seconds – 29 rounds 35 dead 18 severely wounded 24 non-fatal

RESULTS • 12 days, 6 states, 2 territories, federal government, and opposition parties agree to reform gun laws • John Howard, newly elected conservative prime minister quickly reformed gun laws • 1 million firearms smelted, one third of civilian guns • 16 years in 2013 without mass shootings

AMERICA • Columbine, Colo. 13 d/24 i • Binghamton, N. Y. 13 d/4 i • Atlanta 9 d/12 i • Ft. Hood, Texas 13 d/42 i • Fort Worth 7 d/7 i • Manchester, Conn. 8 d/2 i • Honolulu 7 d • Aurora, Colo. 12 d/58 i • Wakefield, Mass. 7 d • Newton, Conn. 27 d/1 i • Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minn. 9 d/7 i • Washington, D. C. 12 d/3 i • Blacksburg, Va. 32 d/17 i • Roseburg, Ore. 9 d/9 i • Omaha 8 d/4 i • Charleston, S. C. 9 d • San Bernardino, Calif. 14 d/21 i

SOME NUMBERS • 300 million+ • 11 million made in 2013 • People in America: approx. 300 million • 31% of households reported having a firearm in 2014 • 22. 4% of adults owned guns in 2014 • 23 million FBI background checks in 2015 • 372 mass shootings in 2015 • 80% of guns in mass shootings were obtained legally

CONCEALED CARRY • Basically get rid of gun free zones • Allow a responsible adult with a gun license and training to have guns • Shootings are less likely to occur where other people have guns • When faced with resistance most deranged shooters give up

ISRAEL • PLO (Palestine Liberal Organization) • Kidnapped Israel students and eventually massacred them • As a response the Israeli raised security at schools • Armed guards or armed teachers • Israel has not experienced such an attack ever since

CONCLUSION • Gun bans have certainly reduced crimes in other places around the world • America is not likely to join that list • A lot of guns in America • I think the concealed carry law might help if only a little

FINAL NOTE ON MASS SHOOTINGS • https: //www. washingtonpost. com/graphics/national/mass-shootings-in-america/

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