AUSTRALIA: MORE VIOLENT CRIME DESPITE GUN BAN

[Furyataurus]

AUSTRALIA: MORE VIOLENT CRIME DESPITE GUN BAN

It is a common fantasy that gun bans make society safer. In 2002 -- five years after enacting its gun ban -- the Australian Bureau of Criminology acknowledged there is no correlation between gun control and the use of firearms in violent crime. In fact, the percent of murders committed with a firearm was the highest it had ever been in 2006 (16.3 percent), says the D.C. Examiner.

Even Australia's Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research acknowledges that the gun ban had no significant impact on the amount of gun-involved crime:

In 2006, assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
Sexual assault -- Australia's equivalent term for rape -- increased 29.9 percent.
Overall, Australia's violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.
Moreover, Australia and the United States -- where no gun-ban exists -- both experienced similar decreases in murder rates:

Between 1995 and 2007, Australia saw a 31.9 percent decrease; without a gun ban, America's rate dropped 31.7 percent.
During the same time period, all other violent crime indices increased in Australia: assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
Sexual assault -- Australia's equivalent term for rape -- increased 29.9 percent.
Overall, Australia's violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.
At the same time, U.S. violent crime decreased 31.8 percent: rape dropped 19.2 percent; robbery decreased 33.2 percent; aggravated assault dropped 32.2 percent.
Australian women are now raped over three times as often as American women.
While this doesn't prove that more guns would impact crime rates, it does prove that gun control is a flawed policy. Furthermore, this highlights the most important point: gun banners promote failed policy regardless of the consequences to the people who must live with them, says the Examiner.

Source: Howard Nemerov, "Australia experiencing more violent crime despite gun ban," D.C. Examiner, April 8, 2009.

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[jody]

1. I don't find material posted on examiner.com anymore credible than posts on DU. n/t

[yay]

3. So statistics lie?

[jody]

4. I didn't say that. What's your point? n/t

[yay]

6. Well you said

Material posted on that site is any more credible than what's posted on DU. Since they posted statistics and not an OP/ED it would more than reasonable to assume that you think they made the statistics up.

[jody]

7. READ VERY CAREFULLY "I don't find material posted on examiner.com anymore credible than posts on DU.

I did not say "Material posted on that site is any more credible than what's posted on DU."

Please don't presume to tell me what I assume, e.g. "more than reasonable to assume that you think they made the statistics up."

Do you by chance have a vested interest in raising the view count on things posted on examiner.com so the author can increase her/his pay check?

[jody]

2. By clicking on the link to examiner.com, you generate profits for the author according to the

article discussed in DU thread "The Examiner.com Now Wants to Become A Bastion Of Citizen Journalism" (Oct 2008)

[Hoopla Phil]

5. Banning guns does not reduce crime. It will at best change the tools

that criminals use to commit horrible acts with. But usually results in a big black market for guns insuring that only criminal have the guns.