January 6, 201313 yr http://www.dailypaul.com/268567/australian-gun-law-update Australian Gun Law Update Submitted by legalizeliberty on Fri, 01/04/2013 - 13:49in 2nd Amendment From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia Hi all, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 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, so the criminals still possess their guns!) While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed. There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly, while the resident is at home. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in 'successfully ridding Australian society of guns....' You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information. The Australian experience speaks for itself. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens. Take note Americans, before it's too late!
January 6, 201313 yr You're not gonna win gun control arguments with statistics.. it's too easy for both sides to crank out numbers in favor of their particular argument. That aside, and has already been pointed out, these "statistics" are over 10 years old. Take it for what it's worth http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp
January 6, 201313 yr You're not gonna win gun control arguments with statistics.. it's too easy for both sides to crank out numbers in favor of their particular argument. That aside, and has already been pointed out, these "statistics" are over 10 years old. Take it for what it's worth http://www.snopes.co...ics/ausguns.asp True, but according to a bunch of friends who live there nothing has changes from those numbers other than getting worse for the unarmed general public.
January 6, 201313 yr True, but according to a bunch of friends who live there nothing has changes from those numbers other than getting worse for the unarmed general public. I don't doubt that for a minute. But for every article I see that says that, there's another one that says something else. I don't know anyone that lives there, so all I have to go by is what I can find from doing research online and as we all know, if it's on the internet, it must be true
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