[sparkscoffee] Re: Australia Gun Control - Big Failure
- From: Sblumen123@xxxxxxx
- To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, arawest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 20:32:42 -0500 (EST)
RR
The item about Stephen King did not mention the figures you show.
Was the economy a factor? King is world famous, it is surprising he
didin't pick up your numbers in his 25 page piece which was
published last week in the Amazon Kindle readers.
On public radio I heard a reporter for the National Geographic doing
a story on Libya say that people who never had guns now do as a
result of the revolt against Gadhafi, don't want to give them up and
many are being used by militas fighting each other and the whole
country is unstable, streets are garbage-strewn, unraveling
municipal services, etc.
Comrade B
In a message dated 2/4/2013 10:42:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Because of the changes made to the gun control laws in 1997, 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. After 12 months of banning firearms:
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).
Hot Burglaries are up 300% (where the intruders come in while you are home
and knows that you are home).
In the state of Victoria, homicides with firearms are up 300 percent.
Figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed
robbery with firearms (but increased 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 served after such monumental effort and
expense was
successfully expended in "ridding society of guns." Their response has
been to "wait longer".
Their suggestion to citizens has been to build a fortified room in their
house, so that when a burglar enters their home, the homeowners may lock
themselves in that room while the burglar takes what he wants from their
house.
At the time of the ban, the Prime Minister said, "self-defense is not a
reason for owning a firearm."
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. Preventing law-abiding citizens from carrying firearms for
self-defense does not end violent crime - it just makes victims more
vulnerable!
Society benefits from ordinary people who accept the responsibilities of
firearm ownership - not from gun-control laws.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323777204578195470446855466.ht
ml
http://www.captainsjournal.com/2012/07/23/do-gun-bans-reduce-violent-crime-a
sk-the-aussies-and-brits/
http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/564441/Crime-climbs-in-Austra
lia-after-widespread-gun-ban.html
-RR
The government is good at one thing...They break your legs, then give you a
crutch and tell you "See, without the government you wouldn't be able to
walk"
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