"murders and suicides plummeted" But they didn't. At least not homicides. Homicides didn't plummet until early 2000s. # of homicides by year (I'm not exactly su

"murders and suicides plummeted" But they didn't. At least not homicides. Homicides didn't plummet until early 2000s. # of homicides by year (I'm not exactly sure how a year is counted, for example first year is 1989-1990, 1990-1991, etc: 307,324,313,332,323,327,303,299,328,305,310,351,299,289,248,283 It really falls off after the 283, but the 1995-97 numbers are right around 300. Yeah, less than the previous years, but not by a lot (and as the article pointed out, there was already a downward trend) After 1996 the number of homicides committed with a firearm went down, but the actual number of homicides didn't. Data from https://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide https://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide