The whole summary can be obtained here.
This analysis of the 1994 AWB appears at the end of the National Institute of Justice, "Summary of Select Firearm Violence Prevention Strategies," released January 4, 2013:
What these knuckle=dragging academics don't say is what happened to violent crime in Australia since their 1997 weapons ban. Here is another summary:
This analysis of the 1994 AWB appears at the end of the National Institute of Justice, "Summary of Select Firearm Violence Prevention Strategies," released January 4, 2013:
"The 1994 law exempted weapons manufactured before 1994. The exemption of pre-1994 models ensures that a large stock, estimated at 1.5 million, of existing weapons would persist. Prior to the 1994 ban, assault weapons were used in 2-8% of crimes. Therefore a complete elimination of assault weapons would not have a large impact on gun homicides.
A National Academy study of firearms and violence concluded that the weaknesses of the ban and the scientific literature suggest that the assault weapon ban did not have an effect on firearm homicides.
[...]Since assault weapons are not a major contributor to US gun homicide and the existing stock of guns is large, an assault weapon ban is unlikely to have an impact on gun violence. If coupled with a gun buyback and no exemptions then it could be effective. The 1997 Australian gun buyback was massive in scale and, while it appears to have had no effect on gun homicide, Australia has had no mass shootings since the ban was put in place."
What these knuckle=dragging academics don't say is what happened to violent crime in Australia since their 1997 weapons ban. Here is another summary:
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 percent of murders committed with a firearm was the highest it had ever been in 2006 (16.3 percent), 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:
In 2006, assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
Sexual assault -- Australia's equivalent term for rape -- increased 29.9 percent.
Overall, Australia's violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.
Moreover, Australia and the United States -- where no gun-ban exists -- both experienced similar decreases in murder rates:
Between 1995 and 2007, Australia saw a 31.9 percent decrease; without a gun ban, America's rate dropped 31.7 percent.
During the same time period, all other violent crime indices increased in Australia: assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
Sexual assault -- Australia's equivalent term for rape -- increased 29.9 percent.
Overall, Australia's violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.
At the same time, U.S. violent crime decreased 31.8 percent: rape dropped 19.2 percent; robbery decreased 33.2 percent; aggravated assault dropped 32.2 percent.
Australian women are now raped over three times as often as American women.
3 comments:
Argue all you want, it is not and never has been about public safety or anything else the left comes up with. They are still laughing about the arguments they made up, and the msm carried for them knowing they were untrue, in the run up to Roe V. Wade. They are evil f*cks and simply mean to gain power and do evil. Our guns simply stand in the way, if ever so slightly. But evil is cowardly.
You're talking to/about people whose minds are all corked up.
and the government doesn't care about the Newtown kids anyway. The stimulus bill has add on's for the HC bill. No HC for those under 3 or over 70 - pain pills maybe for those over 70.
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