By comparison Australia, which imposed sweeping gun control laws in response to the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, has a firearm death rate of 0.86 per 100,000, and in the United Kingdom the rate is 0.26. In the year of 2014, thousands of Americans were killed by guns. There was a total of 8,124 gun homicides.[111] In 2015, there were 33,636 deaths due to firearms in the U.S, while guns were used to kill about 50 people in the U.K.[106] More people are typically killed with guns in the U.S. in a day (about 85) than in the U.K. in a year.[106]