In response to the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre in which 35 people were killed, Australia famously instituted a wide-ranging gun ban and "buyback" (paid, forced confiscation) of a variety of semi-automatic firearms. What Australia has famously proven in the more than two decades hence is that gun control can't stop evil.
This was illustrated again this past weekend when an unknown individual or individuals did a drive-by shooting that left 1 man dead and 4 other people wounded.
A security guard was killed and five others were wounded in an apparent drive-by shooting incident outside an Australian nightclub in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Victoria Police say a 37-year-old man was critically injured in the incident in Melbourne's Prahran district at around 3:10 a.m. local time; he was taken to hospital, but later died.
"Three of the people struck were employees, security guards at the nightclub, and one person was a patron just waiting, innocently, to get in," Detective Inspector Andrew Stamper told reporters.
Police say a 28-year-old man remains in critical condition; three other men, aged 26, 29 and 50, suffered non-life threatening injuries in the incident.
The truth is that Australia was a relatively safe country both before and after the Port Arthur Massacre and their massive gun control push has disarmed the law-abiding, while being ignored by those who wish to do evil.
Australia's then-Prime Minister, John Howard, banned rapid-fire rifles and shotguns, and tightened gun licensing regulations. More than a million firearms were collected and destroyed.
The nation saw its worst mass shooting since Port Arthur last year, when seven people, including four children, were killed in a murder-suicide near Margaret River in Western Australia.
This is the sort of gun control Democrats tout as a model for the United States—ignoring the 2nd Amendment and the much more extensive gun culture compared to Australia—and it should be obvious that it just doesn't work.
