France, Great Britain and Australian have some of the strictest gun laws in the world. In a mandatory government “buyback” program, Australian gun owners were forced to relinquish their guns — or go to jail, removing nearly 661,000 guns from law-abiding Aussies. Citizens were paid for their guns, but how do you put a price on security and freedom? One gun owner said, There’s no ifs or buts about it, by taking that gun away from me, they’ve stolen something from me.
How effective has Australia’s gun control program been? The NRA reported on a University of Melbourne and British Journal of Criminology study that took place 12 years after the imposed ban. The cold, hard facts cannot be denied:
- Armed robberies skyrocketed 69 percent
- Assaults involving guns rose 28 percent
- Gun murders increased 19 percent
- Home invasions jumped 21 percent
Over and over, the evidence shows that banning guns and imposing strict laws consistently raises homicide rates.
Cities like Chicago and Washington, D.C., have the toughest gun laws in the nation, along with the highest gun murder rates. The state of Illinois has a gun murder rate of 2.8 per 100,000 people, but Chicago is right at 16 per 100,000 — five times the rate of Illinois. The states of Maryland and Virginia compare similarly with regard to Washington, D.C.
Even though progressives have failed to overturn the Second Amendment, they have made inroads by establishing things like gun-free zones — the locations where most mass shootings now take place. Why? Because they’re easy targets for those wishing to perpetrate evil and violence.
Source: Gun Control: The Four-Part Series
Anyone who watches the ID channel at all will know that people kill people in different ways and not all weapons used are firearms. But the Left will still blame the gun. The culprit is evil pure and simple. People have been killing other people since before the invention of gunpowder. Taking away guns or restricting them in unreasonable ways won’t prevent murder by firearms. It will just make it harder for people to protect themselves.
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Actually the Illinois state and Chicago difference may be greater. I am guessing the state figure includes the Chicago data. If you remove the Chicago data from the state data and calculate the state rate minus Chicago it is probably much less than 2.8 per 100k.
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