The Socialist/Progressive police state in Australia has, since its draconian gun confiscation, tried to suppress the fact that it violated its citizens civil rights without cause. The claim that gun confiscation decreased violent crime is false, even when the "fact checkers" at Politico cherry picked years and data to try to bolster that (socialist/progressive initiated) claim.
In fact, according to the Australian government’s own statistics, a number of serious crimes peaked in the years after the ban. Manslaughter, sexual assault, kidnapping, armed robbery, and unarmed robbery all saw peaks in the years following the ban, and most remain near or above pre-ban rates. The effects of the 1996 ban on violent crime are, frankly, unimpressive at best.
It’s even less impressive when again compared to America’s decrease in violent crime over the same period. According to data from the U.S. Justice Department, violent crime fell nearly 72 percent between 1993 and 2011. Again, this happened as guns were being manufactured and purchased at an ever-increasing rate.
So although you have fewer firearm-related deaths when you disarm
law-abiding civilians, violent crime increases, because there is now NO
deterrence to criminals. Even a criminal with a knife can rob, rape and
murder someone who is unarmed, and as seen in France, Germany and England, they do.
