It is a fact that countries or states with the strictest gun laws have much more crime than states that don’t have strict gun laws. Take Australia for example. From the period of 1995, the year that guns were banned in that country, to the year 2001, armed robbery has went up 170%, kidnapping/abduction is up 144%, assault is up 130%, attempted murder is up 117%, and sexual assault is up 112%. And these figures come from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and the Australian Institution of Criminology. One might ask what was going on in Australia before the 1995 ban of firearms. It’s quite fascinating. Firearm related homicides did drop 66%, and firearm related deaths (non homicide) had gone down 50%.

Another example is Vermont. It is one of the safest five states in the nation. In Vermont, citizens can carry a firearm

Police simply cannot protect, and aren’t required to protect every individual; therefore, we must protect ourselves. Armed citizens kill more than twice the amount of crooks than police do every year. Take the former Attorney General of Florida, Jim Smith, for example. He told Florida legislators that police responded to only about 200,000 of 700,000 calls for help in Dade County. Smith was asked why so many citizens in Dade County were buying guns and he said, “They damn well better, they’ve got to protect themselves.”

Also, in 1979, the Carter Justice Department found that more than 32,000 attempted rapes were actually committed. But when a woman was armed with a knife, or a gun, only 3% of the attempted rapes were successful.

Concealed carry laws are dropping crime rates across the country. A study that was done in 1998 revealed that violent crime fell after states made it legal to carry firearms concealed. Murder rates dropped by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assault by 7% and robbery by 3%, in states that passed concealed weapons laws.

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