尽管澳大利亚的暴力犯罪并未因此销声匿迹，但谋杀案有所下降，更重要的是，1996年之后再未发生过死亡人数三人或以上的大规模枪击时间（3人死亡是很多研究中所定义的大规模枪击事件标准 ） 。
While violent crime has not ended in Australia, murders are down, and, even more dramatically, there has not been a single mass shooting since 1996 in which three or more people died (the definition used in many studies of mass shootings).