{"id":19027,"date":"2016-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/former-prime-minister-john-howard-speaks-out-in-us-gun-debate\/"},"modified":"2016-03-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T00:00:00","slug":"former-prime-minister-john-howard-speaks-out-in-us-gun-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/former-prime-minister-john-howard-speaks-out-in-us-gun-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PM John Howard speaks out in US gun debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Prime Minister John Howard has spoken on US television about the strict gun laws his government introduced in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre.<\/h3>\n

\u201cIt is incontestable that gun-related homicides have fallen quite significantly in Australia, incontestable,\u201d Mr Howard said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, if you had 13 mass shootings before Port Arthur and you had none since, isn\u2019t that evidence?<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you had a 74 per cent fall in the gun-related suicide rates, isn\u2019t that evidence? Or are we expected to believe that was all magically going to happen? Come on.\u201d<\/p>\n

WATCH JOHN HOWARD HERE:<\/h3>\n

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\u201cPeople used to say to me, \u2018You violated my human rights by taking away my gun\u2019,\u201d Mr Howard said.<\/h3>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019d (say), \u2018I understand that. Will you please understand the argument, the greatest human right of all is to live a safe life without fear of random murder\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Howard was appearing on a Sunday morning TV news show on CBS, which also spoke with pro-gun Australian senator David Leyonhjelm and Port Arthur survivor Carolyn Loughton, who lost her 15-year-old daughter Sarah in the massacre.<\/p>\n

Mr Leyonhjelm said: \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any relationship between the availability of guns and the level of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Loughton said: \u201cI am loath to comment, but my question is, \u2018How is it going for you over there?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Former Prime Minister John Howard has spoken on US television about the strict gun laws his government introduced in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre. \u201cIt is incontestable that gun-related homicides have fallen quite significantly in Australia, incontestable,\u201d Mr Howard said. \u201cI mean, if you had 13 mass shootings before Port Arthur and you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-19027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFormer PM John Howard speaks out in US gun debate - 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