Mass Shootings, Riya Desai, February 27, 2018, Period Five On the 14th of February, it was a normal day. Many kids were smiling, laughing, until it happened. At Stoneman Douglas, a school in Parkland, gunshots were heard all around. A mass shooting had happened, killing 17 people in the process. Mass shootings are large problems in the world, shootings have many fatalities, people are afraid to go to schools, but there are multiple solutions like the one Australia took. Shootings have many fatalities, the most being in the US. In the chart from the UNODC, it shows "60% of homicides in the US are from guns," Guns in the US: The Statistics Behind the Violence. The same chart shows that in Canada, Australia, and the UK, there is less then 15%. …show more content…
According to Eugene Kiely, "The most recent government report on crime trends in Australia says, 'Homicide in Australia has declined over the last 25 years, '" Gun Control in Australia. In 25 years, homicide in Australia has only declined. This is a recent report, so the information must also be recent, saying that even in that amount of time, homicide rates have shrunk, unlike in the US and other parts in the world. The same article, it says "One study says that the program reduced the number of guns in private hands by 20 percent." The program, which was removing most firearms, reduces, effectively, the number of guns in hands. As seen above, the same program reduced homicide rates. This shows the program works and is reducing the amounts of shootings in the country/continent. The author also states, "We wrote at the time: 'Have murders increased since the gun law change, as claimed? Actually, Australian crime statistics show a marked decrease in homicides since the gun law change." In most areas of the world, murders increase as you keep growing up. In Australia, it is the opposite. Since they took enormous precautions by taking guns away, murders, homicides, and other things have declined massively, not stopping the problem completely, but many of the extremely major ones. Australia has solved the problem of mass