Why Australia’s gun laws wouldn’t work in the US | ABC News

Does more guns mean more violence? A lot has to do with a country’s gun culture, and whether gun ownership is seen as a privilege or a right. In America, there is a legal and cultural concept that it’s okay for people to have guns for self-defence, which isn’t really present in other countries.
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Studies have found a correlation between gun ownership and gun violence, but you have to go deeper than that. Just because a country has a lot of guns, doesn’t mean they’ll have a high death rate - the types of guns prevalent in the country make a difference as well.
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