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Posted on 09/15/2016 1:48:29 PM PDT by PROCON
Edited on 09/15/2016 3:27:24 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
With shootings a weekly occurrence in Melbourne and crime up, Justice Minister Michael Keenan announced plans to allow those with illegal guns to turn them in without compensation.
The island continent with a population of around 24 million held a nationwide gun buyback in 1996 following a mass killing known as the Port Arthur massacre, where a gunman murdered 35 people and injured 24. The measure led to severe restrictions on firearms including an outright ban on most semi-automatic and pump-action rifles and shotguns. During the enactment of the law, the government bought back nearly 700,000 guns at a cost of $500 million, but whether or not it had a positive affect is still up for debate.
While conflicting studies have argued violent crime statistics have gone up while other hold they have dropped in the past 20 years, Melbourne– Australia’s second largest city– has seen 100 shootings since last January. In the past decade, firearms offenses have more than doubled from 2,308 to 4,947.
As an answer to help curb what authorities classify as the “grey market” in unregistered firearms in the country, an amnesty program will be launched in coming weeks to allow those with unwanted or unlicensed guns to turn them in for destruction without prosecution.
“Some of that will be somebody who might have grandpa’s old gun in the back shed that wasn’t registered that we want handed in,” said Justice Minister Michael Keenan as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald. “We want to make sure that people have the opportunity to hand these guns in without having any penalty.”
Last year authorities in New South Wales were shocked after being called in to pick up a 20-gun collection left behind by a deceased man that included an SKS and a 10/22.
Australian-based Gun Policy.org estimates the number of illegal guns in the country can range as high as 6 million while registered guns are less than half as many.
Contrary to popular reports, Australia has not been without mass casualty incidents with firearms since 1996. Last year a murder-suicide shooting spree in New South Wales left five dead, armed sieges of gunmen in Hectorville and Sydney in the past few years each left three dead and a 2002 shooting at Monash University left two dead and five injured.
Keenan told reporters he expected “thousands” of guns to be turned in.
When guns are banned, only the bad guys will have guns.
I guess they expect all the "bad guys" to use this amnesty to turn in their guns.
The mental illness of liberalism knows no national boundaries.
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Try offering the death penalty for murder, you leftist retards.
“Last year authorities in New South Wales were shocked after being called in to pick up a 20-gun collection left behind by a deceased man that included an SKS and a 10/22.”
They wold crap their pants if they saw the contents of some Americans’ gun safes.
How do you put the following in the same story?
With shootings a weekly occurrence in Melbourne and crime up
and
but whether or not it had a positive affect is still up for debate
I'd say your crime element has won the debate, and your politicians lost their asses (not to mention a good chunk of change).
Sounds like a pretty weak collection to me.
It is against the law for everyone to carry a gun outside of the home in Chicago. That includes porches and detatched garages, regardless of where they came from.
Australia is a gun free area for over a decade that libs dream of.
However, two states there have had to resort to gun amnesties.
Queensland did their second one in 2013. It seems that thousands of guns have been smuggled in from overseas or have been stolen from legal owners in burglaries and armed robberys and gun assaults have been on the increase. They even home make them.
And they come in on boats and airplanes.
It is the prime example of what gun owners have been telling gun confiscators that criminals will find a way to get guns.
In Queensland Australia’s case, the government begged illegally acquired gun’s owners to turn them in. Twice already since confiscation.
It WAS illegal in Chicago
Yep, that libtard gun control magic works every time...
Violent crime is up so would you good people please disarm some more? LOL
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;-)
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But when I do it's about gun control!
A 10/22? The Horror.....
How’s a bloke supposed to shoot his ‘roos?
My buddies would piss on my grave if that's all that was in my safe.
You mean the violent criminals didn’t give up their guns? You mean Australia didn’t try to take guns from them? just from the law-abiding non-violent people?
Coulda told ya that.
So, prior to this, gun owners bought their guns directly from the government...not gun stores or individuals?
Cool.
Were gun buyers able to buy bazookas and anti-aircraft guns too?
When statist policies fail (and they always do) statists/democrats/liberals whatever you call them NEVER admit they're wrong. They always say "We just didn't go far enough." and double down on the stupidity. Liberal "logic" to misuse the word, goes as follows: If doing x makes something worse, then doing 10 times x won't make it ten times worse, but will somehow magically reverse the effect and make it better. This phenomenon only exists in liberal minds - nowhere in nature does digging faster and deeper get you out of a hole.
Arrogance and stubborn stupidity are essential parts of the liberal mind
Great example of the historically failed liberal mindset.
The Prime example of liberal failure that repeats every generation:
"Sure Socialism/Communism didn't work out in the Soviet Union, Mao's China, Pol Pot's Cambodia or Chavez's Venezuela; they just didn't do it right like we will, trust us."
But without legs (or even thumbs), how do they expect the guns to turn themselves in?
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