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Australian Gun Ban Facts & Statistics
Reasonforforce ^

Posted on 01/03/2013 4:48:26 AM PST by RC one

It has now been over 10 years since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own Government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.

The statistics for the years following the ban are now in:

Accidental gun deaths are 300% higher than the pre-1997 ban rate

The assault rate has increased 800% since 1991, and increased 200% since the 1997 gun ban.

Robbery and armed robbery have increase 20% from the pre-97 ban rate.

From immediately after the ban was instituted in 1997 through 2002, the robbery and armed robbery rate was up 200% over the pre-ban rates.

In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 171 percent


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: australia; banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment

Let's examine the overall murder rate and the gun murder rate in Australia. Take note both are virtually unchanged and unaffected by the gun ban. The Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it. While the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns

Some more fun tables to shut liberals up:

ASSAULT

The trend in assaults shows an average growth of five percent each year from 1995 to 2007. The Australians "banned" guns in 1997 as you will recall.

ROBBERY

Oh look how armed robbery increased after the gun ban. Look how robbery increased too. Note that incidence of armed robbery as compared to unarmed robbery never changed after the gun ban. It's almost as if the only affect the gun ban had was to increase the number of people that were robbed (or assaulted).

MURDER

Oh look. after we banned guns in 1997, people murdered by guns decreased by 10%. On the other hand, people murdered by knives increased by 10%. Well, at least you weren't shot to death and thank goodness no criminals were hurt in the commission of their murders. Awesome!

RAPE

Reported sexual assaults have increased by 51 percent since 1995, at an average of four percent each year. Let's not forget about those little Sheilas now. look at that. They're getting raped more often than ever now that the rapists know they're unarmed. How about that.

I'm sure it wouldn't be that way in America though because our citizens are known to be SOOOO much more civilized than those violent barbaric Australians.

hmmm, wait a second...on second thought-you know what? There's no way I'll be turning my guns in.

Australians making their society safer, one dump truck load at a time.

1 posted on 01/03/2013 4:48:33 AM PST by RC one
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To: RC one

Now they need to ban those horrible knives. Because we all know that when a liberal idea is tried and it doesn’t work it is just because we didn’t do enough of it.


2 posted on 01/03/2013 5:25:26 AM PST by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the alter of "gun free zones"?)
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To: logic101.net
You're more right than you know. Here's everone's favorite negro, Al Sharpton saying exactly that last night. Listen to this BS but you might want to pop a Zofran tablet first.
3 posted on 01/03/2013 5:43:42 AM PST by RC one (From My Cold Dead Hands.)
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To: RC one

Do you have links to the data or whitepapers backing up the graphs? I would like to reference these but generally include the source data to support the chart.


4 posted on 03/23/2013 1:39:48 PM PDT by bsc7080fcc
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To: bsc7080fcc
I pulled it all straight from the Australian Institute of Criminology as I recall.

Old post.

Curious.

5 posted on 03/23/2013 6:01:39 PM PDT by RC one (From My Cold Dead Hands.)
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To: bsc7080fcc

welcome to Free Republic btw.


6 posted on 03/23/2013 6:03:17 PM PDT by RC one (From My Cold Dead Hands.)
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To: RC one

Looks like China will have a nice South Pacific naval base/slave camp if they ever go to war with the west. They will be able to steamroll over the Aussies in a few days.


7 posted on 09/18/2013 10:46:01 AM PDT by zalzan
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To: RC one

those idiots in Australia should’ve never gave up their guns will never give up our guns in America


8 posted on 06/13/2014 4:46:54 AM PDT by DRONEKILLER
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To: RC one

those idiots in Australia should’ve never gave up their guns will never give up our guns in America


9 posted on 06/13/2014 4:46:54 AM PDT by DRONEKILLER
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To: RC one

Thanks for the stats, I’ll return the favor. These are US STATS. Word of caution, crime is not counted accurately. More of our governments fuzzy math tricks. It is Hierarchical Counted, only the most serious crime is counted if there were actually 4 crimes committed at the time. Kidnap, rape, rob then kill a person, only the murder counts. Rest flushed down the toilet.

First one you have to dig through, for the meat. Second is Parole and Probation violators. It is the only study available for that. Each State will have it’s own Stats. This is a sampling of total through out US State Prison systems, does not include federal.

Recidivism
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=17
These offenders had accumulated 4.1 million arrest charges before their most recent imprisonment and another 744,000 charges within 3 years of release.

Older study, Parole & Probation but invaluable info. https://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/ppvsp91.txt
Keep in mind the sampling was just 45%, they originally committed 25,900 crimes, when placed early release under ‘community’ supervision for parole and probation they then committed another 74,400 new crimes. That folks adds up to 100,300 crimes, and many times more than in victims. As there are multiple people affected when a child is raped or a person murdered.


10 posted on 06/13/2014 5:04:01 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promisesI to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: DRONEKILLER

I doubt all did. Legit people are now buying legit guns out of trunks of cars from people they know to avoid the registering of them. They may turn in a bad piece, but the rest they keep.

It’s us CCW folks that are the most impacted. As my 2 hand guns are registered. Even though 1 belonged to my late husband. It’s mine now. I went to a Taurus Ultra Lite Revolver, when Arthur, would not let me rack my Beretta auto .38, I still have hubby’s 9 mm Ruger and ammo.


11 posted on 06/13/2014 5:10:18 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promisesI to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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