If Brains Were Gunpowder

Tomi Lahren loves to pretend she can match wits with people when it's obvious she's completely out of her depth as soon as she leaves her safe space at DumFux News.

Eric Swalwell has proposed a full ban on "assault weapons" along with a buy-back program.

Ms Lahren bites back:

Swalwell retorts:

And Tomi takes the bait:

Enter Mr Edward T Hardy, commentator UK/US:

"In other words, gun control reduced mass shootings without hindering legitimate gun ownership."

Even though gun ownership may be up, the restrictions put in place in Australia have seemingly helped reduce the number of gun deaths in that nation.

Following a mass shooting tragedy in 1996 where 35 people were murdered in a single incident, Australian government leaders — which included a coalition of left- and right-leaning lawmakers — sought to make rules concerning gun ownership stricter.

The new set of laws passed in the aftermath of that mass shooting required 28-day waiting periods for anyone wanting to purchase a gun. It also created new licensing requirements for individuals to own weapons, and banned outright automatic and semiautomatic guns.

And yes, it included a gun buyback program, in which the nation bought more than 600,000 guns from owners and destroyed them, The Atlantic reported.

How did it all turn out? The results speak for themselves. From 1996 to 2016, the rate of gun deaths in Australia dropped by more than 63 percent, according to GunPolicy.org.

Much of that drop took place soon after the gun reforms were passed: within two years of the mass shooting and implementation of the new rules, gun deaths were down by 40 percent in 1998.