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Originally Posted by darkun  Schola: The gun buyback scheme was known to be flawed before the previous government introduced the policy for the simple reason that criminals would not (and have not) hand in their guns. Homicide statistics
That's out of a total of 260 homicides - in 20million people! My point remains,
Guns will only ever lead to more death. |
I don't want to hijack this thread since it's not about gun control so I'll make one last reply on this subject. You're welcome to create a new thread though.
According to the stats you posted, your murder rate was low and it has only dropped slightly in spite of the government gun control. That suggests that murder rates are affected by other factors.
The violent crime rate in the United states, while still high by Western standards, has dropped for the last 10-15 years as well, without any major gun control measures, besides an assault weapons ban. Source:
Crime in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia