http://www.examiner.com/article/increased-gun-control-lead-to-increased-gun-violence-australia
Australia only had like what? 1 mass shooting every 10 years or so before they banned most firearms?
Just because Australia hasn't had another mass shooting since they banned most firearms doesn't prove that a similar gun ban in the USA would be effective at ending mass shootings.
The USA has way more guns and people than Australia does. Good luck trying to confiscate 300 to 500 million privately owned firearms...
Australia is also an island with a relatively sane immigration system. Smuggling guns into Australia is a lot harder than smuggling guns into the USA. We border Mexico, which serves as a gateway to the brown "hispanic" 3rd world of Central and South America; which has the highest gun murder rates on the planet (despite having very strict Australian-style gun regulations by the way).
Not only that, but conservative Americans practically worship gun rights. In Australia and the rest of the Western world, not even so-called "conservatives" support gun rights. Trying to confiscate guns in the USA could literally result in a civil war (not an exaggeration).
Also, mass shootings have still occurred in other Western countries and U.S. cities that have similar gun regulations as Australia.
People are just going to have to come to grips with the seemingly counterintuitive realization that since the USA has SO many guns, the best way to deal with mass shootings is actually MORE guns and LOOSER gun laws.
I'm a concealed carry permit holder. If a mass shooter decides to strike in an area that I'm in, I can whip out my Glock 26 and blow him or her away. But since I always follow the law, I don't carry in areas where guns are banned. In areas like that, everyone is a sitting duck.