Everybody know in 1996, Australia decided to pass a law where it is almost impossible for a good citizen to hold a regular gun as a system of self-defence.
This law is used, all around the world, as an example by anti-weapon associations or politicians who claim to have a solution to crime and violence.
Today, Australian police forces were forced to admit this law is not effective at all. In fact, this system was very useful to leave 700 thousands Australian without a weapon but completely ineffective against those weapons owned by criminals. So just legal weapons were taken out from the public but not the illegal ones.
In the last 12 months, in Australia around 3.300 people were arrested due to crimes done with a weapon. Around 9.000 illegal weapons were confiscated and the Chief Officer of South Wales, Mr. Andrew Scipione, said:
"There is not any direct link between violence and weapons. A weapon might be in the hand of criminals, riders, killers or normal thieves..."
That mean anybody can hold an illegal weapon but not a legal one. Especially if you are a good, reliable citizen.
What can we say?
Great job to make Australia unsafe!
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/we-cant-stop-gun-crime-20120211-1syg1.html