I've not seen those numbers, but they don't surprise me.
We've had a BIG gangland war going in Melbourne for the past few years. Crooks dropping like flies.
I have to agree: the gun buy-back scheme has been a total debacle.
Thanks for the answers. I was surprised about the gang comment. I foolishly thought, 'what gangs?'. You said crooks were dropping like flies. Are they killing each other then? My mom always thought we should have given all the gangbangers in Oregon a handgun, locked them all in the Collisium (in Portland) and tell the last one left alive to shut off all the lights on his way out. She called it post-natal abortion. My mom was a liberal but she was pro-life; an inconsistancy I was never able to resolve.
Do most Aussies think that guns are dangerous and shouldn't be kept by 'normal' people?