I'm curious as to where you got your stats from RE Australian gun violence Lyle.

I live in Australia and it's pretty unusual to hear of many shootings here. They do happen but not often and usually not with semi automatics. If anyone is shot it's big news - not something that happens everyday.

I'm glad we have gun laws here. There are plenty of psychos but they usually attempt to hurt people with less powerful weapons which means they don't always succeed.

I understand that guns laws work best in places where the laws have been in place long enough to keep gun numbers down. It'd be hard somewhere like the US to make them effective which already has so many guns out there.

Still if I did live in the US i think I'd be just as likely to accidentally shoot myself of a family member by accident as someone who was actually trying to hurt me so I'd be scared to own one.

A girl in my primary school was playing with a bullet without a gun and still managed to accidentally shoot herself in the foot. Don't ask me how but she did seriously hurt herself.

I grew up in the country where farmers can have guns but only certain types and it's very tightly regulated. No child in the city (most of Australian population) would be able to get hold of a bullet to play with.