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FROM the NCPA (National center for policy analysis)
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:
Moreover, Australia and the United States -- where no gun-ban exists -- both experienced similar decreases in murder rates:
- 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.
- 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.
Hahaha these figures make me laugh.
For starters, sexual assault doesn't just include rape in Australia. Sexual assault includes things as petty as sexual harassment. Sexual assault basically refers to any unwanted sexual behaviour which makes a person feel uncomfortable, threatened or scared. It covers a range of different types of assault. So to include this in your figures compared to actual RAPE figures in USA is laughable. Don't confuse rape with sexual assault because they mean totally different things, sexual assault can be so minor it's funny.
And you are quoting figures from 5 years after the reforms? Well guess what, the figures have continued to decrease to the point it is less than half now then when the reforms were brought in. 2002 was 11 years ago mate. Things have changed considerably since then, evidenced by the real world STATISTICS I provided.
Wow robbery increased 6.2 percent? Hahahaha. I would much rather want robbery to ever so slightly increase as a trade off to having gun deaths more than half since reforms brought it.
Your post and 'figures' just made you look more stupid. LOL. Thanks mate