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Originally posted by ThunderBalls
And you know this for sure? Look at the stats from Australia enacting gun control:
Has anything changed in Australia since the new laws went into effect? Between 1987 and 1996, 100 Australians were killed in mass killings of four or more people. Since the new laws went into effect, there has not been a single massacre. Moreover, in Australia, homicides committed with firearms have been declining - slowly before the Port Arthur Massacre, more sharply since - from 28 percent of all homicides in 1989-90 to 16 percent in 2001.[4] While the 1996 gun laws did not initiate the decline in firearm homicides, they appear to have accelerated it.
Along with the declining use of firearms in homicide, Australia has seen a decline in the use of firearms in armed robberies. From 1993 to 2001, the proportion of robberies committed with a firearm dropped from 16 to 6 percent.[5]
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Not to mention that most people turned in their shitty guns for the cash they were offering and boxed and burried their good ones on their property. I'm well aware of what happened in australia, however, if owning a gun is ever banned here in the states I will not relinquish my arms. You also do not have compton, long beach, or crenshaw blvd in .au either. And so long as I have to work late hours in shitty parts of LA or SD and get paid in cash leaving at 2am, I beleive I have the right to protect myself. That is actually grounds here for a consealed weapons lisence which I intend on picking up here at some point. Now, I will revert to an old saying that i used to question untill I thaught about it. Guns don't kill people, someone has to aim the gun and pull the trigger. Not to mention a gun is only a method, and if you think eliminated guns wont stop someone from stabbing you in the neck with a sharpened toothbrush at the ATM for your wallet you're dead wrong.