“The loss of liberty can be measured in the loss of life.” Check out this clip for what happened after Australia banned all semi-automatic and pump action firearms:
It has now been over 10 years since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own Government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
The statistics for the years following the ban are now in:
- Accidental gun deaths are 300% higher than the pre-1997 ban rate
- The assault rate has increased 800% since 1991, and increased 200% since the 1997 gun ban.
- Robbery and armed robbery have increase 20% from the pre-97 ban rate.
- From immediately after the ban was instituted in 1997 through 2002, the robbery and armed robbery rate was up 200% over the pre-ban rates.
- In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 171 percent.
And all that, without legal gun ownership. Go figure.
Great video of what Bloomberg and others want to do here in the USA. Thanks Dustin for posting this one.
Can we leave Obama out of this discussion? In his first term Obama got straight “F” form the folks that wanted him to crack down on guns. On the contrary….the gun business has flourished under Obama…as has the NRA. But be careful folks….The Purelle Generation is (rightfully) upset after the latest atrocities….dig in your heals too deep and there could be a fight to overturn the 2nd.