The Drum Beat Continues: Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.

[Gman]

Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.

The on-camera shooting of two Virginia reporters Wednesday morning seems bound to evoke, like so many shootings before it, some sort of national conversation about gun control. Which means that there will likely be some of debate about whether it would even be possible for the US to limit its millions of privately held guns — by far a higher per capita gun ownership rate than any other country.

It is worth considering, as one datapoint in the pool of evidence about what sorts of gun control policies do and do not work, the experience of Australia. Between October 1996 and September 1997, Australia responded to its own gun violence problem with a solution that was both straightforward and severe: they collected roughly 650,000 privately held guns. It was one of the largest mandatory gun buyback programs in recent history.

And it worked. That does not mean that something even remotely similar would work in the US — they are, needless to say, different countries — but it is worth at least looking at their experience.

[cstone]

But what if I don't want to live in Australia? What if I am happy with our Constitutional protections that keep the federal government from doing what the Australian government did to their citizens?

Did Australia have a significant gun violence problem prior to the gun confiscation? I didn't think so.

[Rooskibar03]

Government tells me there are 11 million illegal alien in the county and it's impossible to round them all up.

How they gonna handle 300 million guns?

[Sawin]

Government tells me there are 11 million illegal alien in the county and it's impossible to round them all up.

How they gonna handle 300 million guns?

Good point. In reality there are probably a lot more than 11 & 300 million... how do they know? They're undocumented aren't they?

[Dave_L]

Government tells me there are 11 million illegal alien in the county and it's impossible to round them all up.

How they gonna handle 300 million guns?

This made me chuckle. Oh so true...

[sniper7]

Plus think of how many boats they will need to recover a large majority of the currently lost ones...and the additional boating accidents that will certainly lead to more accidental deaths.

[speedysst]

Plus think of how many boats they will need to recover a large majority of the currently lost ones...and the additional boating accidents that will certainly lead to more accidental deaths.

I believe the response would be: "Dear Sir, as for your claim that you lost your firearms in a terrible boating accident, we have video evidence from our NSA drone that disproves said claim. You will be contacted by Federal Agents."

[BushMasterBoy]

Latest news is the Australians want closer ties with the Pentagon because they are worried about China. I can just imagine all the Australians in Chinese labor camps.


Source:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/australi...u-s-1440584680

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2...australia.html

[BPTactical]

And let's look at the violent "Crimes against Persons" statistics after those confiscations.
Through the roof.

[T. B. Turner]

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