Dante Chavez

• Wednesday March 13 th 1996
• Dunblane Primary School
• Thomas Hamilton
• 43
• Scout leader
• Gym
• 4 handguns
• 3 minutes
• 16 children
• 1 teacher

• British government bans private ownership of automatic weapons and handguns
• Gang weapon of choice: knife
• Only 2% of cops carry guns
• 55 homicides in one year
• One or two were shootings

• Sunday April 28 1996
• Port Arthur
• Martin Bryant
• 48
• He had money
• Colt AR-15 SP1 carbine & L1A1 SLR battle riffle
• A day
• 20 in the first 90 seconds – 29 rounds
• 35 dead
• 18 severely wounded 24 non-fatal

• 12 days, 6 states, 2 territories, federal government, and opposition parties agree to reform gun laws
• John Howard, newly elected conservative prime minister quickly reformed gun laws
• 1 million firearms smelted, one third of civilian guns
• 16 years in 2013 without mass shootings

• Columbine, Colo. 13d/24i
• Atlanta 9d/12i
• Fort Worth 7d/7i
• Honolulu 7d
• Wakefield, Mass. 7d
• Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minn.
9d/7i
• Blacksburg, Va. 32d/17i
• Omaha 8d/4i
• Binghamton, N.Y. 13d/4i
• Ft. Hood, Texas 13d/42i
• Manchester, Conn. 8d/2i
• Aurora, Colo. 12d/58i
• Newton, Conn. 27d/1i
• Washington, D.C. 12d/3i
• Charleston, S.C. 9d
• Roseburg, Ore. 9d/9i
• San Bernardino, Calif. 14d/21i

• 300 million+
• 11 million made in 2013
• People in America: approx. 300 million
• 31% of households reported having a firearm in 2014
• 22.4% of adults owned guns in 2014
• 23 million FBI background checks in 2015
• 372 mass shootings in 2015
• 80% of guns in mass shootings were obtained legally

• Basically get rid of gun free zones
• Allow a responsible adult with a gun license and training to have guns
• Shootings are less likely to occur where other people have guns
• When faced with resistance most deranged shooters give up

• PLO (Palestine Liberal Organization)
• Kidnapped Israel students and eventually massacred them
• As a response the Israeli raised security at schools
• Armed guards or armed teachers
• Israel has not experienced such an attack ever since

• Gun bans have certainly reduced crimes in other places around the world
• America is not likely to join that list
• A lot of guns in America
• I think the concealed carry law might help if only a little

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/mass-shootings-inamerica/

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