US Republican candidate Ted Cruz has attacked Australia's tough gun laws, according to a report in Huffington Post Australia.
Cruz is reported to have said that since Australia's 1996 gun buyback program, "the rate of sexual assaults, the rate of rapes, went up significantly, because women were unable to defend themselves."
However the Washington Post did some research on Cruz's claims and found that while the rate of sexual assaults in Australia increased slightly between 1996 and 2014, "there was no significant spike or drop after the 1996 legislative changes or buyback program".
The story reported: "The increase likely is affected by the increase in reporting, and there wasn’t prevalent use of handguns for self-defence before 1996, as Cruz suggests," they wrote.
"The newspaper also points out, correctly, there was no blanket exemption allowing people to use handguns for self-defence before the Howard Government introduced gun control legislation."
Cruz neglected the fact that there hasn't been a mass shooting in Australia since the gun buy back.
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