On several occasions I have heard reference to statistics for violent crimes comitted in Australia with handguns. Ownership by private citizens was outlawed there sometime during the 90's. The year after violent crimes comitted with handguns increased dramatically (something like twice the number of violent crimes of the year before comitted with handguns). Sorry, I don't know where you would find this statistics information for Australia. I would think that the lawmakers there behind this move would not want it's failure widely puplisized so the internet would probably be the best place to find the information. I have read references to these statistics on Pro 2cd Amendment web pages but never from the source. By the way, what is the point of outlawing ownership guns by law-abiding citizens in an open society, especially one in which criminals don't seem to have any difficulty acquiring guns illegitimatly? I would propose that it has to do with power and control of government more than the safety of it's citizens. (The one exception is violent demestic disputes which do occur among previously law-abiding citizens... however, they tend to use whatever is handy, gun or no.)
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On several occasions I have heard reference to statistics for violent crimes comitted in Australia with handguns. Ownership by private citizens was outlawed there sometime during the 90's. The year after violent crimes comitted with handguns increased dramatically (something like twice the number of violent crimes of the year before comitted with handguns). Sorry, I don't know where you would find this statistics information for Australia. I would think that the lawmakers there behind this move would not want it's failure widely puplisized so the internet would probably be the best place to find the information. I have read references to these statistics on Pro 2cd Amendment web pages but never from the source. By the way, what is the point of outlawing ownership guns by law-abiding citizens in an open society, especially one in which criminals don't seem to have any difficulty acquiring guns illegitimatly? I would propose that it has to do with power and control of government more than the safety of it's citizens. (The one exception is violent demestic disputes which do occur among previously law-abiding citizens... however, they tend to use whatever is handy, gun or no.)