This is a quote from the daily wire on line.
2. The gun bans in Australia and Britain also didn’t work.
Australia and Britain are both hailed by the Left as evidence that gun
control works. However, the facts tell a different story.
Two studies
– a 2007 British Journal of Criminology study and a 2008 University of
Melbourne study – concluded that Australia’s temporary gun ban had no
effect on the gun homicide rate. Crime Research Prevention Center
president John Lott had similar findings.
“Prior to 1996, there
was already a clear downward [trend] in firearm homicides, and this
pattern continued after the buyback,” wrote Lott. “It is hence difficult
to link the decline to the buyback.”
“Again, as with suicides,
both non-firearm and firearm homicides fell by similar amounts,” Lott
continued. “In fact, the trend in non-firearms homicides shows a much
larger decline between the pre- and post-buyback periods. This suggests
that crime has been falling for other reasons. Note that the change in
homicides doesn’t follow the change in gun ownership – there is no
increase in homicides as gun ownership gradually increased.”
In Britain’s case, the Crime Research Prevention Center
found that after the gun ban was implemented, there was initially a
severe increase in the homicide rate, followed by a gradual decline once
Britain beefed up their police force. However, there has only been one
year where the homicide rate was lower than it was pre-ban:
Additionally, there was an 89 percent spike in gun crime from 1998/1999 to 2008/2009, all of which occurred after the gun ban.
A
closer look at the actual facts show that the Left’s favorite examples
of Britain and Australia are actually examples of how gun control
doesn’t work.
