legally armed organised militias in neighbourhoods would be worse than unorganised individuals having guns.

6 assassinated is 6 more than down here. A now little known Australian fact is that in Arthur Calwell a former Aussie PM was shot at, to quote from WIKI to save me typing

Calwell is also notable for being only the second victim of an attempted political assassination in Australia (the first being Prince Alfred in 1868). On 21 June 1966, Calwell addressed an anti-conscription rally at Mosman Town Hall in Sydney. As he was leaving the meeting, and just as his car was about to drive off, a 19-year-old student named Peter Kocan approached the passenger side of the vehicle and fired a sawn-off rifle at Calwell at point-blank range. Fortunately for Calwell, theclosed window deflected the bullet, which lodged harmlessly in his coat lapel, and he sustained only minor facial injuries from broken glass. Calwell later visited Kocan in the mental hospital (where he was confined for ten years), and through a regular correspondence encouraged his eventual rehabilitation.

I read Kocans book, now long out of print I imagine "The treatment and the cure" well worth reading if you can get it. There are famous photos of Calwells face when he was still sitting in the car covered in embedded glass fragments, forming a bit of claret. he was a lucky man. Kocan was a boy and a .22 sawn off not a good choice. Had the window been open however, our world would have changed. When former PM John Howard