Another Gun Control Failure
A recent study entitled “Gun Laws and Sudden Death: Did the Australian Firearms Legislation of 1996 Make a Difference?†published in the British Journal of Criminology examines the history of gun control laws enacted in Australia. These laws include a complete ban on pump action shotguns, semi-automatic shotguns, and semi-automatic rifles. Australia also implemented a massive government sponsored Gun Buyback Program. That program has spent $500 million collecting 640,000 arbitrarily banned firearms.
The authors cited data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) to reach their conclusions that the gun law reforms have had no effect whatsoever on murder or suicide rates when a firearm is used. It is true that those rates have declined, but there was an established historical decline occurring before these laws were passed. They did nothing to increase the rate of that decline and have been expensively ineffective.
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I live in Australia, and I find it quite insulting that you refer to our gun control as a failure?????????????? Please clarify more precisely where it has been a failure,and I will endeavour to answer you with some facts.
Already proven. Gun control has failed everywhere its been tried. Examples are all over the net.
its a failure because
we havent had a mass killing for 10 yrs
our murder rate has gone down
gun ownership has risen
secure storage has stopped theft of arms
best they can drag out of the stats is although suicide by guns is down, it can be tied to the total number that is falling as well
its a failure because nra has nothing to use for their own political fight in the u.s
what they fail to take into account is that aus never had gun carry or generally available pistols
aussie stats were never going to help them
especially when u.s murder rate is 4.6 times higher than ours per capita
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in:
Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent
Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent
Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns!
It will never happen here? I bet the Aussies said that too!
The so called MILLION MOM MARCH was a fake event there wasnt close to being a million moms and DONNA DEES THOMAS is no suberban soccer mom she has connects with the demacratic party and CBS news and then there was the queen of the hypotcrits ROSIE ODONNELL and many others who were behind this phonie events
Theres some liberal jerk politician from BROOKLYN who wants strict gun control for everyone but himself you see this idiot ERIC ADAMS has his own handgun for his own self defence but still thinks the avrage joe dont deserve the right to self defense SORRY MR ADAMS BUT WE DONT LIVE INA MONARCY WE LIVE IN A REPUBLIC SO BLOW YOUR NOSE IN YOUR HAND AND LICK IT CLEAN YOU LIBERAL SUCK FACED ELETISTS JERK
Gun exchanges and gun buy backs are stupid and rediculous its just one of those silly feel good ideas from a bunch of stary eyed liberals who want to make themselve feel all warming and fuzzy inside and besides these gun backbacks exchanges dont do a thing to stop crime its just another stupid liberal gimmick
Alan Loxton, “It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in:
Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent
Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent
Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns!”
QFT! There’s your stats, Geoff. Got some facts to counter those? Nope, another hit and run troll… Go ahead and wait for the cops to save your life while your family is already dead, or worse, cause you were too emasculated and imbecilic to properly protect yourself from an armed criminal who cares not for gun laws.
The big worm of the BIG ROTTEN APPLE wants to expand his cities gun control on the whole nation becuase like all wealthy liberals he wants his armed protection 24/7 Becuase he is a liberal nit-wit