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Australia experiencing more violent crime despite gun ban
Austin Gun Rights Examiner ^
| 8 April, 2009
| Howard Nemerov
Posted on 04/09/2009 5:26:40 AM PDT by marktwain
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Good numbers, facts instead of emotion. Too bad there is a large segment of the population who facts do not reach, because they depend on the MSM.
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:26:40 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
Don’t think anyone here will be surprised by these facts.
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:30:15 AM PDT
by
FrogMom
(No such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: marktwain
Can’t say I’ve ever heard of these “Peace Movement Aotearoa” people, and I am from Aotearoa (New Zealand).
I shall check into them, see how real they are...
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:32:20 AM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: marktwain
There is no difference in the use of a firearm in robbery: Guns were used in 6.4% of all robberies in both 2001 and 2007. Surprise! The criminals aren't following the rules. Who would have guessed?
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:32:34 AM PDT
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; Shooter 2.5; wku man; SLB; ..
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:34:44 AM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: marktwain
John Howard engineered the gun ban.
John Howard deserves all the credit for the increase in violent crime.
Tar, Feathers ?
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:36:42 AM PDT
by
TYVets
To: Joe Brower
Instead of “despite,” how about “because of”?
To: marktwain
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:39:06 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(1000110010101010100001001001111)
To: marktwain
Banning guns increases crime...more or less the same as disarming merchant shipping increases Somali pirate raids.
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:39:14 AM PDT
by
GBA
To: marktwain
I'm shocked....................
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:40:55 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If Keynesian economics worked, Zimbabwe would be a superpower.......................)
To: marktwain
Sheesh. Next you’re going to tell me that criminals don’t follow gun laws, right?
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:41:24 AM PDT
by
Doohickey
(The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.)
To: marktwain
Australia experiencing more violent crime despite BECAUSE OF gun ban
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:42:24 AM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
To: marktwain
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:42:27 AM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Larry Lucido
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04/09/2009 5:43:16 AM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
To: marktwain
Australia experiencing more violent crime despite because of gun ban. There... Fixed it!
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posted on
04/09/2009 5:51:06 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm the rest of his life.)
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To: marktwain
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posted on
04/09/2009 6:36:25 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" has gone to the printer.)
To: marktwain
Australian women are now raped over three times as often as American women I read a statistic once, that one in three American women would be raped in their lifetime. If both these statistics are correct, it means 100% of Australian women will be raped in their lifetime. (Or maybe, that the number of rapes in an average lifetime will be the same as the number of women alive - some escaping that fate, but others being raped more than once.)
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posted on
04/09/2009 7:03:44 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: marktwain
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posted on
04/09/2009 7:05:35 AM PDT
by
arthurus
( H.L. Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.")
To: coloradan
The American statistic is wrong. It’s based on rumors and phony statistics circulated by radical feminists to demonize men and make women feel vulnerable.
Reported rape peaked around 1990 at 40 per 100,000 people per year, or 80 per 100,000 females per year. It’s generally declined since.
Assuming an average age of 70, this means the average woman stands a 5600 per 100,000 chance, or about 5.6%, of being raped during her lifetime. BTW, this leaves out of the equation the obvious fact that many women living in dangerous areas or with dangerous occupations may be raped more than once. Equally obvious is that women not in these positions have a much lower risk.
The phony statistics are arrived at by unjustified assumptions about the number of unreported rapes and by playing games with the definition of rape.
I have no idea if the Australian stat is accurate.
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posted on
04/09/2009 7:18:31 AM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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