Gun-Controlled Melbourne: More Than One Shooting A Week Since January 2015 – IOTW Report

Gun-Controlled Melbourne: More Than One Shooting A Week Since January 2015

Breitbart; Gun-controlled Melbourne, Australia, has witnessed more than one shooting a week every week on average since January 2015.

According to The Age, “Crimes associated with firearm possession have also more than doubled, driven by the easy availability of handguns, semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and, increasingly, machine guns, that are smuggled into the country or stolen from licensed owners.” In fact, “criminals are now better armed than at any time since then-Prime Minister John Howard introduced a nationwide firearm buyback scheme in response to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.”

It is interesting to note that Hillary Clinton praised Howard’s gun confiscation scheme during an October 16 town hall, describing it as “worth looking at” for policy in the U.S. Yet the example of Melbourne shows the outcome of such confiscatory policy is an environment more reminiscent of Chicago than utopia.  MORE

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