After a devastating mass shooting in 1996,Australia enacted sweeping gun laws banning semi-automatic guns, introducing waiting periods, and stronger background checks and a government buyback program. Philip Alpers,a University of Sydney professor and founding director of GunPolicy.org, talks about whether the Australian model for gun control would work in the US, and even after the Australian Prime Minister recently declined to form any comparisons between the two countries.
Source: thetakeaway.org