Guns For Self-Defence

[Sarge]

some stats from down under since the Australian gun ban. after reading this, I vote to keep my guns.

Countrywide, homicides are up 3.2 percent;

• Assaults are up 8.6 percent;
  
• Amazingly, armed robberies have climbed nearly 45 percent;
  
• In the Australian state of Victoria, gun homicides have climbed 300 percent;
  
• In the 25 years before the gun bans, crime in Australia had been dropping steadily;
  
• There has been a reported "dramatic increase" in home burglaries and assaults on the elderly

[Graham]

Originally Posted by Sarge

Graham, you can read the Amendments to our Bill of Rights at

So basically we're talking about the same thing, just with different names.

[punky]

Originally Posted by Sarge

some stats from down under since the Australian gun ban. after reading this, I vote to keep my guns.

Countrywide, homicides are up 3.2 percent;

• Assaults are up 8.6 percent;
  
• Amazingly, armed robberies have climbed nearly 45 percent;
  
• In the Australian state of Victoria, gun homicides have climbed 300 percent;
  
• In the 25 years before the gun bans, crime in Australia had been dropping steadily;
  
• There has been a reported "dramatic increase" in home burglaries and assaults on the elderly

Those stats mirror other countries around the world. Since we banned guns, gun crime has been rising. In the last 10-15 years in the US, gun crime has decreased, even though gun ownership has increased.

The only country to buck the trend is Michael Moore's favourite socialist uptopia of Canada, where gun ownership has risen, but so has gun crime.