The Truth About Australian “Gun Violence”

By Robert Farago

First things first. According to this chart, the number of knife and firearms-related homicides in Australia per year is low, and has been low for all the years listed (1989 through 2012). Then remember that The Land Down Under instituted draconian gun control/confiscation – held up as a model for America by President Obama and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton – after the Port Arthur Massacre in April 1996. And keep in mind the correlation doesn’t equal causation. Now, check out . . .

the way the lines form a reverse mirror image. A dip in firearms related homicides in 1993 is concomitant with a rise in knife-related homicides. There’s a similar relationship in 2001/2003. The parallel more or less continues all the way to 2012, where the lines are moving back to their relative starting positions in 1989/1990.

Adding the two stat lines together, the combined number of homicides per year has remained roughly the same over the entire time span. In other words, the methods used to kill — knife and firearm — has not impacted the total number of Australian homicides. Despite the warning at the beginning of this post, it seems fair to conclude that Australian gun control …Read the Rest

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