SSAA & NRA- Gun Control Stats & links
The following is the NRAWinningTeam.com synopsis of an interview conducted by NRA-Live's Ginny Simone with Keith Tidswell of Australia's Sporting Shooters Association. The entire RealAudio® interview is available as "Australia Gun Ban Results" in the "Archive News" section of NRA's new. fully Multi-Media-based web site...http://www.nralive.com/
One year after gun-owners were forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms, including semi-automatic .22 rifles and shotguns, to be destroyed in a government program costing over 500 million dollars, the results are in...
The Aussies' Two Cents
Since they banned gun ownership, Australia doesn't have the problems the United States has. Ohhh Nooo.
DATELINE:SYDNEY, April 17, 2007 (AFP) - Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday that strict gun controls introduced after one of the world's worst massacres by a lone gunman helped Australia avoid a US-style "gun culture".
Howard, who ordered the controls after gunman Martin Bryant killed 35 people in a rampage through Port Arthur in Tasmania in 1996, was reacting to Monday's shooting spree at the US Virginia Tech University which left 33 people dead.
"We had a terrible incident at Port Arthur. But it is the case that 11 years ago we took action to limit the availability of guns and we showed a national resolve that the gun culture that is such a negative in the United States would never become a negative in our country," he said.
Howard told reporters, however, that "you can never guarantee these things won't happen again in our country."
Wellll, let's see how successful
Australia's experiment in gun control has been. Just 12 months after Howard ordered gun controls:
Australia-wide, homicides were up 3.2%.
Australia-wide, assaults were up 8.6%.
Australia-wide, armed-robberies were up 44%.
In the state of Victoria, homicides-with-firearms were up 300%!
The steady decrease in homicides-with-firearms that occurred during the previous 25 years became an increase in the following 12 months.
The steady decrease in armed-robbery-with-firearms that occurred during the previous 25 years became an increase in the following 12 months.
There has been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults-of-the-elderly.
At the time of the ban, the Prime Minister said "self-defense is not a reason for owning a firearm".
From 1910 to present, homicides in Australia have averaged about 1.8-per-100,000 or lower, a safe society by any standard.
The ban has destroyed Australia's standings in some international sport shooting competitions.
The membership of the Australian Sports Shooting Association has increased by 200% in response to the ban and in an attempt to organize against further controls, which are expected.
I have updated stats that are even worse, but they're at home. The lesson is that when guns are banned, crime ALWAYS goes up.
When honest citizens are allowed to arm themselves, crime ALWAYS goes down.
It's a fact liberals refuse to see.
Above article & comments From: http://importantstuffornot.blogspot.com/
Notice the steady decrease until the gun ban?
Notice the upswing from 1997 on?
"...there has been a decline in firearm-related deaths in 1997, mostly due to a decline in the rate of suicides and accidents... There is also preliminary evidence that in some cases, for example suicide and armed robbery, firearms may be being displaced by other methods or weapons..."
-- Summary from Report Main Page
-- Summary from Report Main Page
Does this sound like effective Crime Control?
"...The best organization you've got there, the biggest organization you've got there is the NRA. We don't have an organization that size. We didn't have an organization that size, and as a consequence, we suffered. And we hope that you don't suffer..."
Keith Tidswell
Keith Tidswell
Sporting Shooter's Association
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SSAA - Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia
As the National President of the Sporting Shooters’ Association of Australia and on behalf of our 120000 members, I would like to take this opportunity to ...www.ssaa.org.au/ - 17k - 25 Apr 2007 -
As the National President of the Sporting Shooters’ Association of Australia and on behalf of our 120000 members, I would like to take this opportunity to ...www.ssaa.org.au/ - 17k - 25 Apr 2007 -
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After the 1996 mass killing of 35 people, Australia rapidly enacted gun controls ... The reforms did not affect rates of firearm homicide in Australia. ...
UK Stuff:
UK Stats :10/12/99
posted by 10 men at 4:39 AM
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Happened to catch this over at the BBC today, apparently crime is down slightly, though it's hard to tell from the graph supplied.
Shooting deaths apparently rose from 53 to 57, well it's either the crims are resorting to bows and arrows or the gun bans aren't working.
Almost forgot to add, since many in the UK are turning to bicycles (doing their bit for the planet), bicycle theft is soaring, apparently one is stolen every 71 seconds. Remember this when the tossers boast that car theft is dropping.
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