dlowan wrote:The same drivel says that the laws haven't worked - there are more burglaries. Perhaps -
but:
Sharp Drop in Gun Crime Follows Tough Australian Firearm Laws
Actually, Australia's armed and unarmed robbery rates have risen quite a bit since the gun ban, and there has been only a small drop in homicide rates.
Yes, a much lower percentage of the homicides were the result of gun use. But I question whether going from gun-deaths to knifing deaths (or whatever the current common method is) is much of an improvement.
dlowan wrote:In Canada, where new gun laws were introduced in 1991 and 1995, the number of gun deaths has reached a 30-year low.
Two years ago in the United Kingdom, civilian handguns were banned, bought back from their owners and destroyed. In the year following the law change, Scotland recorded a 17% drop in all firearm-related offences. The British Home Office reports that in the nine months following the handgun ban, firearm-related offences in England and Wales dropped by 13%.
A British citizen is still 50 times less likely to be a victim of gun homicide than an American.
Don't know about Canada, but in England the violent crime rate is triple that of the US.
Usually when organizations put out propaganda that loudly trumpets gun crime rates, they are trying to divert attention from the fact that their anti-gun measures have done nothing to impact total crime rates.
