effects of the down under anti-gun law

Australia's Gun Laws

I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down under. Perhaps we may learn from the mistakes of others. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed, a program costing the government more than $500 million dollars. And now the results are 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, homicides with firearms are up 300 percent. Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms (changed drastically in the past 12 months). There has been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly.Australian politicians are on the spot and at a loss to explain how no improvement in 'safety' has been observed after such monumental effort and expense was successfully expended in 'ridding society of guns.' Bet you won't see this data on the evening news or hear your governor or members of the state Assembly disseminating this information. It's time to state it plainly: Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws only affect the law-abiding citizens.

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Mike,

Where did you get these stats from? I'd like to investigate this further myself.

Thank you in advance,

Well may sound good - pity the fact that it is 110% BS.

But as they say never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Interesting...however, the story pointed to by the above link ONLY speaks about crimes involving a firearm, whereas most of the statistics below (accurate or not) are for more general classes of crime ('homicide', 'assault', 'armed robbery', etc.) In fact, only ONE of the statistics on the rise below says anything at all about firearms. Do you have more applicable data to confirm/counteract these?

Here's a good article
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/ 20000303_xnjdo_crime_u...