Ironically, you post a lie.
I definitely believe that the ultimate goal is a total ban on weapons. They think weapons in this country will just disappear and it will be like guns never existed if they do that. Trust the government to protect us, they say.
Lol.
Of course it is. How often do they point to Australia as an example we should follow? Australia confiscated the guns of it's citizens.
con·fis·cate
ˈkänfəˌskāt/
verb
- take or seize (someone's property) with authority.
"the guards confiscated his camera"
synonyms: impound, seize, commandeer, requisition, appropriate,expropriate, sequester, sequestrate, take (away);
distrain
"the guards confiscated his camera"
- take (a possession, especially land) as a penalty and give it to the public treasury.
buy
verb
- obtain in exchange for payment.
"we had to find some money to buy a house"
synonyms: purchase, acquire, obtain, get, pick up.
It is totally dishonest to say the guns of Australia were Confiscated. A lie, me boy. As you know. Now, I know you know that the guns were purchased from the individuals. Not taken without remuneration.
In addition, the people VOTED to red themselves of the guns, because they had been used to kill people.
Simple lie, from a simpleton. Got it. Try a little truth next time. Dipshit.
Now look at this statistic real closely....What do you see? For a GUN FREE area where all guns were purchased from the individuals, how is there still 3 murders per million by a gun? Were those illegal guns that crossed the border from the South? Oh yeah, Australia is an island and even then surrounded by water on all sides, GUNS still got in....
Many Aussies said "**** off mate!" and didn't turn their guns in.
Just another con lie. They continue to say that gun rates have gone up in Australia. Truth is otherwise. Shich is why, I would guess, there is no link above.
No doubt. But they got most of them. Now, cons continue to state that gun crime rates have gone up since the buy back in 1997. But that is a lie. Consider:
CLAIM
Statistics demonstrate that crime rates in Australia have increased substantially since the government there instituted a gun buy-back program in 1997.
RATING
FALSE
ORIGIN
During the 1990s, Australia was confronting a problem similar to the one that regularly confronts Americans: shooting incidents over the previous decade had left more than a hundred people dead, including the infamous
Port Arthur massacre in April 1996 that saw one gunman wielding a semi-automatic rifle kill 35 people over the course of a single day (including 20 people with 29 bullets in about 90 seconds):
In 1996, Martin Bryant entered a café at the site of a historic penal colony at Port Arthur, Tasmania.
The 28-year-old ate lunch before pulling a semi-automatic rifle from his bag and embarking on a killing spree. By the time he was apprehended the next morning, 35 people were dead and 23 had been wounded. Bryant had become the worst mass-murderer in Australia’s history.
Australia had experienced mass shootings before, but the Port Arthur massacre shook the nation to its core. Bryant was later assessed to have the IQ of an 11-year-old. He told investigators that he’d paid cash for firearms at a local gun dealer.
Shortly afterwards, John Howard, the new Australian prime minister, moved to enact nationwide gun law reform (a process complicated by the fact that the Australian national government had no control over gun ownership or use, so gun reform legislation had to be passed individually by all states and territories). Those reform efforts, known as the 1996 National Firearms Agreement (NFA), included two nationwide gun buybacks, voluntary surrenders, state gun amnesties, a ban on the importation of new automatic and semiautomatic weapons, the tightening of gun owner licensing, and the creation of uniform national standards for gun registration. Australia collected and destroyed an estimated 650,000 firearms (a reduction equivalent to the removal of about forty million guns from the United States), which reduced Australia’s firearms stock by around one-fifth.
Around 2001, a piece appeared on the Internet that has been circulated widely and often ever since, attempting to make the case that Australia’s gun reform efforts were a dismal failure in terms of reducing violent crime.
Dr. David Hemenway and Mary Vriniotis of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center found in 2011 that the NFA had been “incredibly successful in terms of lives saved”:
FACT CHECK: Australian Gun Stats
So, in summary, Australia has had no mass killings and no resulting deaths since the NFA of 1997. In addition, gun deaths from other crimes have decreased substantially. While the conservatives of this country have tried to cherry pick stats that would suggest otherwise, they are simply lying.
