Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Gun Theft in Australia

From our favorite Anonymous commenter we have this.

In Sydney Australia three shootings in one day prompted some serious questions.

While it is impossible to know just how many illegal guns there are in Australia, GunPolicy.org, a website run by the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, estimates the figure to be between 400,000 and 700,000. The vast majority of those firearms are registered and have been stolen from a house or business. They are not guns that have been smuggled into the country.

Right off the top of my head, I'd say if not for their gun control laws there'd be three shootings every day in Sydney, or more. Interestingly, when the straw purchasing business is all but shut down, theft becomes the major source of guns used in crime, unlike Minneapolis.

What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.

4 comments:

  1. Wow. Glad they have gun control and registration. Otherwise there might be 100's of thousands of guns in criminal hands--oh wait....

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  2. I'm hurt, MikeB. I thought I was your favorite anonymous.

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  3. MikeB: “Right off the top of my head, I'd say if not for their gun control laws there'd be three shootings every day in Sydney, or more.”

    No need to think with the top of your head, just look up Sydney’s rate of shootings before they implemented their confiscation with compensation plan. Did they have 1000+ shootings a year?

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  4. Basically there are more illegal guns in Australia than legal guns. Looks like gun control works just as well in Australia as it does in Chicago.

    Or will jadegold claim that like Chicago, Australia never really had gun control?

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