It is a common fantasy that gun bans make society safer. In 2002 five years after enacting its gun ban the Australian Bureau of Criminology acknowledged there is no correlation between gun control and the use of firearms in violent crime. In fact, the per cent of murders committed with a firearm was the highest it had ever been in 2006 (16.3 per cent), says the D.C. Examiner.
Even Australia’s Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research acknowledges that the gun ban had no significant impact on the amount of gun-involved crime:
Moreover, Australia and the United States where no gun-ban exists both experienced similar decreases in murder rates:
While this doesn’t prove that more guns would impact crime rates, it does prove that gun control is a flawed policy. Furthermore, this highlights the most important point: gun banners promote failed policy regardless of the consequences to the people who must live with them, says the Examiner.
Source: Howard Nemerov, Australia experiencing more violent crime despite gun ban, D.C. Examiner, April 8, 2009.
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FMF Policy Bulletin/ 21 April 2009
