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Mental illness or instability in would-be gun owners. >> my thoughts are very much with the families of all those who have tragically lost their lives, absolutely appalling incident. >> reporter: large-scale shootings have triggered limits on gun ownership and access in numerous countries and gun control advocates point to them as proof that mass shootings can be dramatically reduced. >> a gunman killed two dozen people and injured several others. >> reporter: despite a strong gun culture and stiff political resistance in australia, the government banned automatic and semi-automatic weapons. t...

>> i mean, yes, certainly i think there's a level of distrust on each side of this issue that is deeply rooted and, frankly, extends well beyond the gun issue, obviously, into our general politics. but of course i'm not talking about you needing an expert level of education to comment on firearms. i think what we have issue in our industry is that we don't very rarely have even a base level, even an understanding of the difference between semi-automatic and automatic. and these things matter significantly when you're trying to discuss policy responses to this and trying to explain to the audie...

Requirements in response to mass shootings there. a slaughter in nova scotia in 2020 spurred opponents to say those controls don't work in gun advocates noted a downward trend in gun deaths over the past 20 years. >> we know that other countries in response to one mass shooting have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. >> reporter: after 51 people were killed in new zealand in 2019 by an australian gunman who targeted mosques, the government in six days went after military-style semi-automatic weapons, high capacity magazines, and more. >> every semi-automatic weapon u...

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Resistance, the government banned semiautomatic weapons. gun violence plummeted and there's only been one mass shooting since. the government has all kind of responses to a mass shooting there. proponents said those laws don't work. but again, they note an overall downward trend in gun deaths over the past 20 years. >> we know that other countries in response to one mass shooting have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. >> reporter: after 51 people were killed in new zealand in 2019 by an australian gunman who targeted mosques, the government in six days went after mi...