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Originally posted by Joe Citizen
This discussion is about gun control and gun violence. That study was specifically about firearm related deaths. To the chagrin of gun activists it simply cannot be refuted that Australia has seen a drastic reduction in gun violence since 1996 when significant gun control was introduced.
Pre 1996 statistics are here:
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/ti70.pdf
I will look for statistics on non-firearm assaults and deaths.
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That's not what I was discussing, I was discussing the overall violent crime rate in comparisson to gun control. If you take away guns and most homocides are domestic, of course there are going to be fewer gun related deaths. However, is there going to be an increase in knife related deaths? If so, then gun control accomplished nothing. What about armed robbery? Criminals don't care if guns are illegal, they're breaking the law anyway.
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