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I agree that Australian gun control laws more strict, but having strict gun control laws while substantially more die from drug and alcohol abuse seems to suggest that the priorities need to be reassessed. Australia also just spent who know how much money on a public survey about same sex marriage that will not actually result in any change to the law (that goes through another process). I guess it just goes to show that some countries find certain problems easier to solve than others. I am still waiting on what the Australian government will do about the humanitarian rights of asylum seekers and its own history of ill-treatment of the indigenous population...