Gun Control in England and in Australia have statistically proved that gun related deaths have been cut down.?

Question

So many people that are huge proponets of allowing all kinds of assault weapons without control call everyone that doesn't agree a liberal. I am not a liberal, but I do believe we need to have some changes on the types of guns that are manufactured for market, along with age restrictions, mental health checks, and a longer waiting period.

Answer 1

Myth: Gun control in Australia is curbing crime

Fact: Crime has been rising since a sweeping ban on private gun ownership. In the first two years after gun-owners were forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms, government statistics show a dramatic increase in criminal activity. In 2001-2002, homicides were up another 20%.

From the inception of firearm confiscation to March 27, 2000, the numbers are:
• Gun murders up 19%
• Armed robbery up 69%
• Home invasions up 21%

The sad part is that in the 15 years before national gun confiscation:
• Firearm-related homicides dropped nearly 66%
• Firearm-related deaths fell 50%

Fact: Gun crimes are rising throughout Australia after guns were banned. In Sydney alone, robbery rates with guns rose 160% in 2001, more in the previous year.

Answer 2

Well, I looked up the murder rate in Australia. So here you go,

Murder rate in

1997- 1.7 per 100,000
2002- 1.6 per 100,000

Assault
1997- 672.2 per 100,000
2002- 807.7 per 100,000

Sexual Assault

1997- 77.5
2002- 90.6

So the murder rate stayed about flat, but assault and sexual assault both went up.

Now Virginia Tech was a gun free zone, and I wonder how many of the 26,000 students of Tech were off-duty policemen? Police officers, who COULDN’T carry their guns onto the campus! A campus that the Virginia Tech administration said, repeatedly, that they could not secure.

Now I ask you if a long waiting period would have done ANY good. Did it really matter to the shooter if he bought his gun legally or illegally? Yes, this shooter followed the rules, but he didn’t have too. I could buy a gun in New York City, a city with some of the toughest gun control laws in the US. But for the sake of argument let’s say we did all of this, and the Virginia Tech shooter couldn’t get a gun legally, what would have prevented him from buying one illegally? Maybe instead of a gun he just waited for classes to get out and drove a car into the crowd, would you then be asking for a waiting period for people who buy cars? What if he used a bat, knife, pipe or something else would you want a waiting period for those objects too?

During the LA riots people flocked to the gun stores to purchase a firearm and were told they had to wait, meanwhile the police did NOTHING to stop the looting, the robberies and who know what else. The police don’t have to provide you with ANY assistance at all the Supreme Court said so.

The shooter or any criminal for that matter doesn’t follow the law, gun control and gun free zones just means their job is safer and easer. Most criminals LOVE gun control they already have their guns or can get them, if you follow the law what do you have? A phone, 911 and wait for help. In a major city 10 minutes, and if you live in a rural area you can wait for HOURS (no I’m not kidding some counties, where I live, have one or two police for the whole county and if they are on one end and you are on the other, well you’re in for a long wait). How many people could someone shoot in 10 minutes?

Those for gun control need to realize that criminals don’t follow the law, only law abiding citizens do. So, gun control doesn’t keep the guns out of the hands of criminals only out of the hands of law abiding citizens.

http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/ECFAF68AB75AE9E3CA256DEA00053A5A

Answer 3

Sorry to bring facts into the discussion but with regards to Australia, a recent report has shown that new gun control legislation after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre has not had any effect upon gun death statistics.
And what is especially scary about that is that if even the gun death rate didn't go down what about the plain murder or violent crime rate. Innocent civilians being armed is always a deterrent against burglary, home invasions, rape and other crimes.
So we're obvously loosing on one side without any commensurate gain on the other.

Answer 4

Oh, anything but. In England, handguns could only be posessed by members of a gun club, and the handguns had to be kept locked up on club property when not being used. All registered, of course. Then somebody smuggled a gun off club grounds and went nuts, so they banned them altogether. Since then, handgun crime in England has gone up. Do you want to explain that?

Here's something else you can try to explain. Before 1968 in the U.S., you could order absolutely anything--semiauto handguns, revolvers, rifles, shotguns--and all you had to do was fill out an order form and send in a check or money order. No background check, no nothing. So why is it so much worse today with all the restrictions we have now?

Japan has banned hadguns entirely for many years now. Did you hear about the mayor of Nagasaki? He was shot to death with a handgun the other week.

Don't tell me about guns coming from the U.S. either, because if I was willing to cross the Atlantic for guns I'd get them from South America, Africa or Asia first. It would be much easier.

Read this:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-wilson20apr20,0,4514008.story?coll=la-opinion-center

Answer 5

Although the answer to your question (such as it is) is "yes", that doesn't necessarily mean that gun control in the US will produce the same results. It should be noted (for example) that both England and Australia have considerably wider and deeper social safety nets for the poverty-stricken, and considerably lower crime rates per capita overall. In short, the United States has to hoe its own row and walk its own path to lower crime and accidental gun deaths. The statistics don't justify the adoption of England-like or Australia-like restrictions alone, although they can be instructive for our own legislative initiatives.

This isn't much of a question, though, it's mainly your opinion.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Mr. Liu is totally wrong. Washington DC has the strictest gun laws in the country.. and has a VERY high gun crime rate.

But I agree there are some common sense controls that should be put in place. Biometric locks and tagged ammo come to mind.

Answer 8

People need to start taking martial art classes and put down the guns. What does anyone need a gun for anyway!

Answer 9

Statistically it is proven that if there are tighter gun control laws, gun related deaths do go down. It is also statistically proven that if gun control laws are loosened then gun related deaths go up. Examples of highest rate of gun related deaths are in the states that have the least restrictive gun control laws i.e. Alabama, Texas and etc. The victims in Gun related deaths are often women and children from abusive husbands.

Answer 10

Just bcuz gun violence rates hav gone down doesn't mean violence in gerneral has. I'm so tired of hearing about other countries and their gun laws. Other countries aren't the welcome mats to some of the most dangerous drug cartells at the moment, other countries aren't directly targeted by terrorist like ISIS who've recruited "lone wolf attacks" on innocent American citizens who are paying the price for politicians ignorance. Please, go to Australia, the UK, Ireland, whatever and shut the f*ck up.