somedeafdudefromPNW
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Thinking once I get my next cheque... I am going to block AD for awhile.
DC for 2 charity things and the 2nd amendment rally.......After that Baseball watching and a little golf. Oh and seafood....lots of seafood.
I did not say that we don't have crimes involving guns anymore. We do, however it's declining.
Crimes committed with guns are mainly criminals from the underworld and some robbers. We have not had another massacre since Port Arthur. Never had a workplace or school shootings unlike the US.
Criminals are finding new weapons to use instead of guns when committing a crime.
We must undergo criminal check and obtain a permit to own or use a gun.
Glassing is something that has occured now and then in Australia. As for whom does the glassing, I'd say it's men or women, no difference.
From what I have read about whenever assault committed by glass is usually done by drunk, angry men.
It seems to me that either sexes are more aggressive by the decade. I mean girls are now into fighting more because it's popular.
Yeah, a decline in society values.
What about bombing? Some school get bomb threats. and can kill just as many people as school shooting.
Great job OceanBlue! TXGolfer, have fun in Baltimore and DC.
I am thinking how much my butt hurts from that chair dancing class. lol
Thinking once I get my next cheque... I am going to block AD for awhile.
I saw what she wrote. Did you not read the link?
is it an authoritative source? I mean.... that link is written by an American pro-gunner with a hard-on so....
That's kind of lame... to me at least. Because first:
You have people who have "hard ons" on both sides of the spectrum of ANY issues out there.
They both bring valid points. The ones in the middle are more passive and probably is there for the "job".
Read them all and the influence you receive is pretty much balanced, over time, I'm fairly sure.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there was a slight drop in the percent of murders committed with a firearm between 2001 and 2007 (16.0% and 13.4%, respectively). However, the percentage was highest in 2006 (16.3%) and remains higher than the low of 8.9% in 2005. There is no difference in the use of a firearm in robbery: Guns were used in 6.4% of all robberies in both 2001 and 2007.
Australia experiencing more violent crime despite gun banWhile this doesn’t prove that more guns would impact crime rates, it does prove that gun control is a flawed policy. Moreover, for groups like Peace Movement Aotearoa, it’s apparently social justice when more people are raped, robbed, and assaulted, as long as they cannot defend themselves with firearms. This highlights the most important point: Gun banners promote failed policy irregardless of the consequences to the people who must live with them.
Better read one of the links again that came with an link to the ABS site with a pdf file.
http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/subscriber.nsf/0/3DC2485395A1FAACCA25747300125594/$File/45100_2007.pdf
This was several years after the fact when the buy backs began and saw little results.
Australia experiencing more violent crime despite gun ban
Iam thinking that this thread could turn into another poltical debate thread.
Iam thinking that this thread could turn into another poltical debate thread.