This Isn’t Suppose To Happen In Gun Control Utopia
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A drive-by shooting outside a nightclub in the Australian city of Melbourne inflicted “horrific injuries” that killed a security guard and wounded three men, police said on Sunday, but there was no suggestion yet that the attack was terror-related.
Australia has some of the world’s toughest gun control laws, adopted after its worst mass murder, when a gunman killed 35 people at Port Arthur in the island state of Tasmania in 1996.
I thought when you had a gun buy-back, the criminals turned them all in just like everyone else?
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On April 15, 2019 at 9:10 am, moe mensale said:
That much touted Australian gun buyback came with a 66% to 80% non-compliance rate.
https://thefederalist.com/2015/06/25/the-australia-gun-control-fallacy/
“That policy is the gun buyback program, which removed up to one million weapons from Australians’ hands and homes. This was, depending on the estimate, a fifth to a third of Australia’s gun stock.”
The Australians instituted a huge gun buyback and confiscation program. Along with other measures, their 1996 national gun law costs them a substantial amount of money annually. And after more than 20 years, where are they now?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/australia-gun-control/541710/
“There are estimated to be as many guns in Australia now as there were at the time of the Port Arthur massacre—though the level of gun violence is not comparable.”
Contrary to popular commentary, Australia is not a gun free paradise.