Canada unveiled legislation this week that would freeze new handgun purchases and create a mandatory buyback program for semi-automatic rifles. The announcement coincided with the funerals for 19 victims of the massacre in Uvalde, Texas, but it was years in the making. Nick Schifrin reports on how other nations responded to their own mass shootings.
in tucson this past weekend. and our topic is gun laws around the world. richard, let s start with you. you ve got 60 seconds. and the gun laws and the point i want to make in this part of the program is really this. usually major events like tucson do lead to reform of the gun laws in different countries. let s start in australia, for example, where in port arthur in 1996, 35 people were killed in a gun massacre. now, in that case, it led to the federal ban in australia for self-loading weapons and pump-action shotguns. in the united kingdom in 1987, it whappened. in both bases, multiple deaths led the authorities to ban certain types of shotguns or certain types of self-loading rifles. it doesn t always work that way. take, for example, germany, which has some of the strictest
much discussion around the world, we re going to look at it in a bit more detail still. as you said, often there is a lot of confusion and misinformation about divisive issues like gun control. so we want to trade questions and answers about gun laws around the world. richard, it s a good thing we re not quizzing today. i learned all sorts of things that i didn t know about gun laws around the world. you start first. all right. we re going to start in japan, ali. japan, did you know that they are widely considered to have the world s tightest firearms restrictions. ultra-strict restrictions. perhaps that is why the country has sees just a handful of gun deaths annually. a big u.s. study a while back put japan s rate at 1 per every 2 million people. and as you know about the united kingdom, i come from canada. the rules are much, much tighter than they are across the border in the united states.
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