Los Angeles: An Australian university student has been slammed by Americans after she wrote an article on a popular US political website titled 'What Australia Can Teach America About Guns'.

Kaia Delaney, an exchange student from the University of Queensland studying at Virginia's University of Richmond, wrote how in Australia she felt safe walking alone at night or in a crowded area "without thinking of people shooting me".

Shots fired ... Australian student Kaia Delaney has critcised US gun culture in an online article, prompting a backlash from irate Americans. Credit:AP

In the US she feels uneasy because of the availability of guns.

"As an Australian, I have often considered the United States as the leader of the international stage, however I believe there is something that Australia has done that puts it ahead of the United States - the control of firearms," Ms Delaney wrote on TheHill.com.