Originally posted by Xasthur
If you don't have guns.... this **** doesn't happen.
Lol...
For the time period of 1997-1998, assaults and armed robberies increased in all Australian states. Armed robberies increased from 42% of all robberies in 1997 to 46% in 1998. The number of total violent crimes and the numbers of all individual categories of violent crime increased. In addition, unlawful entries rose 3.3% from 421,569 in 1997 to 435,670 in 1998.
The violent crime statistics shown below were retrieved on March 27,
2000, from the Australia Bureau of Statistics website:
VIOLENT CRIME 1997 1998 TREND
Attempted Murder 318 382 +20.1%
Manslaughter 39 49 +25.6%
Assault 124,500 132,967 +6.8%
Sexual Assault 14,353 14,568 +1.5%
Kidnaping/abduction 562 662 +17.8%
Armed Robbery 9,054 10,850 +19.8%
Unarmed Robbery 12,251 12,928 +5.5%
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Enjoy not being able to defend yourself. It looks like aussie criminals sure are...
Of course, they're the ones with guns now, since all the lawful types turned theirs in.
Heck, reading the newspapers there seems to justify the increase in immigration to New Zealand, which has fewer firearms restrictions and a much lower violent crime rate.
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Heh, some interesting newspaper articles in Australia after the anti-gun nuts went crazy using the demented acts of a lone gunman in Port Arthur, Tasmania, on a Sunday in April 1996 to justify their crusade:
"The number of Victorians murdered with firearms has almost trebled since the introduction of tighter gun laws."--Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, Sept. 11, 1997."Gun crime is on the rise despite tougher laws imposed after the Port Arthur massacre, but gun control lobbyists maintain Australia is a safer place. . . . The number of robberies involving guns jumped 39% last year to 2183, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and assaults involving guns rose 28% to 806. The number of gun murders, excluding the Port Arthur massacre, increased by 19% to 75."--"Gun Crime Rises Despite Controls," Illawarra Mercury Oct. 28, 1998."Crime involving guns is on the rise despite tougher laws. The number of robberies with guns jumped 39% in 1997, while assaults involving guns rose 28% and murders by 19%."--"Gun crime soars," Morning Herald, Sydney, Oct. 28, 1998."Murders by firearms have actually increased (in Victoria) since the buyback scheme, which removed 225,000 registered and unregistered firearms from circulation. There were 18 shooting murders in 1996-97, after the buyback scheme had been introduced, compared with only six in 1995-1996 before the scheme started."--"Killings rise in gun hunt," Herald Sun, Melbourne, Dec. 23, 1998."Victoria is facing one of its worst murder tolls in a decade and its lowest arrest rate ever.--Herald Sun, Melbourne, Dec. 11, 1999."The environment is more violent and dangerous than it was some time ago."--South Australia Police Commissioner Mal Hyde, reported in The Advertiser, Adelaide, Dec. 23, 1999.=======
Too many pommies in your government man...
