How do gun bans reduce crime?

[Grouse]

Australian Gun Law Update;
Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts....
From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real
figures from Down Under. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own
government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.

The first year results are now in:
Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent,
Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 percent;
Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
In the state of Victoria.....alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent.(Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!)
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady
decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly, while the resident is at home.

Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in 'successfully ridding Australian society of guns....'

You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information.

The Australian experience speaks for itself. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.
Take note Americans, before it's too late!

FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.
DON'T BE A MEMBER OF THE SILENT MAJORITY.
BE ONE OF THE VOCAL MINORITY WHO WON 'T STAND FOR NONSENSE
AUSTRALIA: MORE VIOLENT CRIME DESPITE GUN BAN

 

[Robby]

It is a planned removal of guns from the citizenry being done incrementally. You will be subjects and pretty much are in this state.

 

Robby

[ADK Native]

Gun bans are useless.  There intent by totoltiarian politicans is to only harass, intimidate and threaten law abiding gun owners and pander to their ignorant "GUN VIOLENCE" beleiving supporters.  Those who support prohibitions and restrictions on lawful firearm ownership are too naive to understand and accept the many terrible root casues that results in "PEOPLE VIOLENCE".

Anyone one with a functioning intellect only has to look at decades of government bans on illegal drugs.  Those drug bans have not stopped the distrubution, sale and use of narcotics.  All of that is a major contributor of "PEOPLE VIOLENCE".  Last year over 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses!  Incrediblbly horrible as that fact is, the politicans are unwilling or unable to wage a real war on drugs.  So the goverment cannot control illegal drugs that kill many time mopre peole than firearm homocides, how will they control the illegal friearm trade to keep criminals armed?  

Sadly too many voters swallow the gun control panicia pill.  The results leave them wondering why all these nonsense laws do not work on criminals.  Ignornace left untreated eventually festers into stupidity.

Edited October 15, 2022 by ADK Native

[Grouse]

Prohibition didn't work either, because bans create evil black markets.  The drug war created a huge and profitable black market.  A ban on legal gun ownership will do the same, along with all of the evil that comes with a profitable black market.

 

[Robby]