Crime Up Down Under. Since Australia's Gun Ban, Armed Robberies Increase 45%
source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15304
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An unarmed nation only benefits criminals.
Since Australia banned private ownership of most guns in 1996, crime has risen dramatically on that continent, prompting critics of U.S. gun control efforts to issue new warnings of what life in America could be like if Congress ever bans firearms.
After Australian lawmakers passed widespread gun bans, owners were forced to surrender about 650,000 weapons, which were later slated for destruction, according to statistics from the Australian Sporting Shooters Association.
The bans were not limited to so-called "assault" weapons or military-type firearms, but also to .22 rifles and shotguns. The effort cost the Australian government about $500 million, said association representative Keith Tidswell.
Though lawmakers responsible for passing the ban promised a safer country, the nation's crime statistics tell a different story:
Countrywide, homicides are up 3.2 percent
Assaults are up 8.6 percent
Amazingly, armed robberies have climbed nearly 45 percent
In the Australian state of Victoria, gun homicides have climbed 300 percent
In the 25 years before the gun bans, crime in Australia had been dropping steadily
There has been a reported "dramatic increase" in home burglaries and assaults on the elderly
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bph1981
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Here is a novel idea for the person who feels they know better than i do when it comes to what guns i purchase. Try staying out of other peoples lives, if your neighbor wants to spend money on a .50 and he has not shot at you or any other persons direction, so what? this boggles my mind that people in this country still think that the government can effectively run / regulate a lemonade stand let alone what products that I BUY WITH MY MONEY. Find one effectively regulated government project as i doubt you can. also try reading the us constitutuion as the founding fathers wrote very clearly and explictly on what the government could and could not do. "shall not be infringed" is pretty clear to me!!!!!
- 2 years ago
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bph1981
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jh64487
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to further from the last argument. i don't think anyone but left wing nuts are talking about outright banning guns. were talking about regulating guns and limiting the kind you can get. my fucking neighbor does not need a .50 cal sniper rifle regardless of what they might think, nor do they need small arms automatic tactical weapons. just thinking they do indicates they shouldn't have one.
keep your rifles, shot guns, even handguns. but we need to get the uzi's and similar weapons (meant only for mass killing) out.
- 3 years ago
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jh64487
