In 1996 and in 2003 the Australian government decreed a compulsory gun buy back program.
Yet like almost all prohibition regulations, the cure have been worse than the disease. [hat tip Charleston Voice]
Wikipedia has an account of the effects of the gun ban. More statistics on Australia's gun ban here.
Yet like almost all prohibition regulations, the cure have been worse than the disease. [hat tip Charleston Voice]
Wikipedia has an account of the effects of the gun ban. More statistics on Australia's gun ban here.
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. ~Thomas Jefferson
trtExcellent, Mr Te!
ReplyDeleteThree points:
1) Prohibition ALWAYS fails
2) Leftwing pols are dumber than before
3) Most government programs are a failure