David Feeney (Batman, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Justice) Share this | Hansard source

If we look at a country like Italy, we see that the number is 0.68. If we look at Canada, we see that the number is 0.50. That is less than one-seventh of the neighbouring nation of the United States. In Australia it is 0.13, and in the United Kingdom it is 0.07. These statistics clearly bear out that, where a society is liberally armed, it is a society where gun murders are at a far higher incidence. Having set out that principle—

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