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!
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 criminals now are guaranteed that their prey
is unarmed.
There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of
the ELDERLY. 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. The
Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it.
You won’t see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians
disseminating this information.
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.
The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind him
of this history lesson.
With Guns………..We Are “Citizens”.
Without Them……..We Are “Subjects”
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Gun control advocates have nothing to back up their claims that more gun
laws will reduce violence. Once again, I point to Chicago and Washington,
D.C. to bitch slap liberal claims that strict handgun controls, and handgun
bans, reduce violence. Both of these cities have the strictest gun laws in
the country, yet both are suffering from some of the highest crime rates in
the nation.
By the way, since the ruling of Heller v. Washington, DC, the capitol has
seen a decrease of 9 percent in their homicide rate.
Robert A. Levy reports, via
USActionNews.com<http://usactionnews.com/2011/01/gun-control-measures-dont-stop-violence/>
:
Against the horrific backdrop of the Tucson, Arizona, tragedy, new gun
control proposals are on the way. Some of our legislators will be tempted to
apply Rahm Emanuel’s aphorism, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”
For example, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-New York, wants to outlaw magazines
with more than 10 rounds — even those already in circulation. She hasn’t
explained how a ban on previously sold magazines would deter anyone but
law-abiding citizens.
Still, the Supreme Court has suggested that sensible gun regulations may be
constitutionally permissible. Sensible is not, however, what we have in
Washington, Chicago, New York and other cities, where you can probably get a
pizza delivery before a response from a 911 call. Police cannot be
everywhere.
Selected proposals may nonetheless be constructive, with three important
qualifications. First, government has the burden to show that a regulation
will not unduly impede the use of firearms for self-defense. Second,
ostensibly modest steps down a slippery slope must not compromise core
Second Amendment rights. Third, a regulation must be effective in promoting
public safety, when weighed against reliable evidence that past restrictions
have not lessened the incidence of gun-related crimes.
Recall that Washington banned handguns for 33 years; during some of those
years the city was known as the nation’s murder capital. *Killers not
deterred by laws against murder were not deterred by laws against owning
guns*. Moreover, anti-gun regulations did not address the deep-rooted causes
of violent crime — illegitimacy, drugs, alcohol abuse and dysfunctional
schools — much less mental instability.
In 2004, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed 253 journal articles, 99
books and 43 government publications evaluating 80 gun-control
measures. *Researchers
could not identify a single regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide
or accidents*. A year earlier, the Centers for Disease Control reported on
ammunition bans, restrictions on acquisition, waiting periods, registration,
licensing, child access prevention and zero tolerance laws. *CDC’s
conclusion: There was no conclusive evidence that the laws reduced gun
violence.*
So much for the quasi-religious faith that more controls mean fewer murders.
There are about 500,000 gun-related crimes annually in the United States.
Further, Americans own roughly 250 million guns. Assuming a different gun is
used in each of the 500,000 crimes, *only 0.2% of guns are involved in crime
each year*. A ban on firearms would be 99.8% over-inclusive.
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