... 2000, Australian authorities had confiscated some 660,000 privately owned firearms for destruction. Once again, gun control is moving hand-in-hand with a rise in crime. The Australian Institute of Criminology reports that between 1996 and 1998 assaults rose 16 percent, armed robberies rose 73 percent, and unlawful entries rose eight percent. Is this is the right answer to guns? I"ll ... ...

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... %, 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 ... ...

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