Australia had in the past many more guns than it does now. When I was a kid we had guns, we liked guns and we didn't even have to have a licence only the money to own one. Farmers would allow.
kids on their properties to shoot the most common weapons were 22 long rifle not a powerful round .
We had a culture that we could hunt but we never even imagined even using a weapon on a human.
This may be the reason that 15 years ago we accepted restrictions on guns after the port arthur massacre.