Gun control did not work here in Australia in any way that matters. If you look at the TOTAL (not firearm) homicide rate graph you can see that it had no effect on the already existing downward trend of murders. It has reduced "firearms massacres" but It has NOT reduced massacres, in the 20 years after the ban we have had 2 massacres killing more than 10 people here, and in the 20 years before the ban we had 2 massacres killing more than 10 people. The tool has changed, but the death toll has not. The media keeps repeating "Since Australia gun ban there has been no massacres". This is pure BS, a 5 second google search shows that there has been 8. Sometimes they say there has been no mass shootings, but this is also wrong, there has been 1. This in a country of 20 million, less than 1/10 of America. America DOES have a murder rate problem, it is 5x higher there than here in Australia, but globally there is no correlation between firearms laws and murder rate. Anyway, thats my 2c.