THANKS TO BOORTZ!
BANNING GUNSYesterday on the program I got to talking about a John Stossel column about gun laws … and how they don’t work. Then I get the emails, “Boortz – you’re wrong! How can you believe that more guns equals more protection …”. In fact, researchers can find no instance in history where banning handguns has led to less violence involving handguns. It just isn’t the case.
Now some of you may not have seen this information in a while, if not at all. But here’s what happened in Australia just one year after gun owners were forced to surrender their means of protection. By the way, “disarming” Australia cost the taxpayers $500 million.
A dramatic increase in criminal activity has been experienced.
OBSERVABLE FACTS, AFTER 12 MONTHS OF DATA:
- Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2%
- Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6%
- Australia-wide, armed-robberies are up 44% (yes, FORTY-FOUR PERCENT)
- In the state of Victoria, homicides-with-firearms are up 300%
- Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in homicides-with-firearms (changed dramatically in the past 12 months)
- Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in armed-robbery-with-firearms (changed dramatically in the past 12 months)
- There has been a dramatic increase in breakins-and-assaults-of- the-elderly
- At the time of the ban, the Prime Minister said “self-defense is not a reason for owning a firearm”
- Lee ADDS: Only a inane and misguided person would advocate banning LEGAL GUN OWNERSHIP!
