Originally posted by astralis
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Ok since you insist. Gun crimes was already on the decline in Australia and continued to fall after the ban....at about the same rate as in the U.S. which dramatically INCREASED the amount of guns. To be clear, with out a gun ban the number of violent crimes in the U.S has dropped to about 50% of what it was in the 1990's. Much of the violent crimes in the U.S are in big cities, mostly liberal and heavily gun controlled. Other crimes , ie, Assault robbery rape have actually increased in Australia. Many such crimes actually spiked right after the ban. A woman now is 3x more likely to be raped in Australia than in the U.S. Speaking of suicide, In Australia it actually peaked in 1998 ( 3 years after the ban), after a steady decline is now going back up. Austrailia has what 24 million people? How many are immigrants? The U.S. has nearly 1/2 the population of Australia in illegals alone. Are you really calling that an apples to apples comparison? Lastly, The U.S has 2.2 million convicts in prisons and we are still experiencing about 1.68 million violent crimes a year. Yeah, I would call that a problem.
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