Posted on 07/07/2015 7:58:11 PM PDT by aimhigh
There are fears Melbourne's gun crime could be spiralling out of control with police data showing a 300 percent rise in firearm offences in the past five years.
Mr Iddles said the streets were more dangerous than he had ever seen.
"The homicide rate's not up but if you have ice and you have the threat of terrorism, it's more dangerous now on the street as a police officer (than) in all my time of 37 years," he said.
Data shows police find an illegal firearm in Victoria every 48 hours.
Mr Iddles said Melbourne's northwest suburbs were a particular hotspot, with a 300 percent rise in firearm discoveries and offences in the past five years.
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Tell me, is the rise in crimes with guns related it immigration (legal and illegal)?
"I want to go duck shooting." "OK."
That's all that means. It gives police the power to ask questions in cases where they have suspicions about a person. But, in practice, it's not invoked in very many cases, unless there's some reason for suspicion.
Is that good? No, I'd prefer we didn't even these type of restrictions. But it really isn't onerous.
Hand gun licences, or licences for semi-automatic weapons do tend to get more questions asked. So if you talk about those, I'd agree it's at least bordering on difficult - but even then, it's not that bad. Harder than it should be. Yes. But that's not quite the same thing.
Want a fully automatic weapon, or a large calibre handgun - that is hard.
I honestly don't know, but I'd be surprised if it is that significant.
It's hard to immigrate to Australia and we don't have a major illegal immigrant problem - it's a lot easier to secure borders surrounded by hundreds of miles of ocean than it is a long land border. We do have some crimes that seem to specifically involve some refugee groups but most of that seems to be knife crime rather than gun crime from what I've seen.
Gun crime really does seem to involve people who have been here a lot longer.
Yes, I was, thanks.
Here in the US nearly half of all violent crimes are committed by blacks. Mostly against other blacks. Illegal immigrants commit far more than their share of crimes, too.
Do criminals in Melbourne attack only cops? Or is the safety of non-cops unimportant?
After all that effort, the mere possession of one of the controlled devices exposes you to surprise inspections. No thanks. I'll keep shooting the supersonic stuff.
This is not correct.
The article soft peddles it. I may yet pursue some of those items. A suppressed bolt action 300 BLK would be decent for the mule deer in my area. The cartridge is attractive since you can make the brass from .223 brass and use the same stock of bullets that work for 30-30, .308 and 30-06. Common primers with the .223 and common powder with the 44mag.
The 300 BLK suppressed is quiet enough to shoot without "ears".
No, but it should be understood that this article has been written and the comments made in the context of a police officer being shot yesterday. It is very rare for a police officer to be shot here. Fortunately, despite being shot in the head, he seems in pretty good shape.
It's quite rare for anybody to be shot, actually. But police, it is really rare. I think it's about ten years since the last time it happened in this state.
Hmn. But Melbourne is a very diverse city and has plenty of illegal immigrants of many cultures.
Mr Iddles said Melbourne's northwest suburbs were a particular hotspot, with a 300 percent rise in firearm discoveries and offences in the past five years.
I'd be willing to bet that these "illegal firearm discoveries" are taking place amongst the honest citizens, and not the criminal class. This is an ongoing process to disarm the people, so as to make them easier marks for their criminal and political overloards.
And you'd be wrong.
Honest citizens have gun licences. They are not hard to get. Whether we should have to get them or not is another question, entirely, but we can and we do.
An illegal firearm is nearly always a firearm in the hands of a criminal, and the fact that there are so many is proof that the laws don't accomplish much really in stopping criminals from having guns.
Perhaps, but many Americans might give the same response as you in such cases, and I can yell you that unless they were threatening or otherwise misusing the weapon, I'd never vote to convict for it if I were on a jury, the "law" be damned.
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