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a conservative government passed strict gun control laws and bought back over 600,000 guns already in circulation in this gun loving nation. and the decade that followed gun homicides fell 59%. and gun suicides plummeted 65% according to one study. here to tell us about it is tim fisher the deputy prime minister at the time who helped to get the measures passed. welcome. thank for joining us. greetings, fareed, and cnn. when people think about the rest of the world, they tend to think that countries outside of the united states have a very different culture and attitude towards guns, but australia is not so different. it s a settler society with a frontier culture and people have a long and proud history of gun ownership. was that hard to was it hard to introduce the kind of measures you did, given that
reaching out so quickly. not surprised in a time like this, you know how lucky you are to be an american because all of the resources and capabilities of the united states government come in and help you whether you re in sandy or katrina or oklahoma city bombing or something like this. we ll get through it. the numbers are aren t going to get better. they are only going to get worse and it s going to be a very, very difficult time going forward. i ve seen a couple of the the stoic faces of your people down there. they are something. we saw the tabors, another family, one guy raises horses down there later in the afternoon and the power of these people to just take this. do you know it s coming every few years and you stand up to it? i think it is. it s a frontier culture. they are tough people. they are people with a great deal of faith and they love where they live and the people
many ways a capital of reinvention and hope in the world. and america in that same time period, as the president reminded us, painfully on tuesday night, seems to be becoming something else. and that is the great drama of our time in many ways. you have a column where you right about this, i think the column is going to be posted tomorrow. what is much more threatening to the american future, you write, is the american idea itself. now lived by people have a world away, even as it withers at home. america has inspired with its can-do frontier culture of self-help and self-making. millions of people in india and china and elsewhere to believe in the creed of reinvention and has taught the ordinary to dream and dare in for a corners of the world where dreaming and daring are still almost criminal. and we see it now playing out in india and china and other places, and it s kind of shrivelled here at home. it s amazing to me, you know, when i was a child and i would go to india on thes