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"Charges for crimes involving firearms have increased dramatically across the island nation’s localities in the past decade according to an analysis of government statistics conducted by The New Daily. It found that gun crimes have spiked dramatically in the Australian states of Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania. In Victoria, pistol-related offenses doubled over the last decade. In New South Wales, they tripled. The other states saw smaller but still significant increases. Experts said that the country’s 1996 ban on most semi-automatic firearms has actually driven criminals to those guns. “The ban on semi-automatics created demand by criminals for other types of guns,” professor Philip Alpers of the University of Sydney told The New Daily. “The criminal’s gun of choice today is the semi-automatic pistol.”
[…]Regardless of the reasons for the jump in gun crime, the numbers reveal the true size of Australia’s illegal gun market. “Taken together, the data suggests that despite our tough anti-gun laws, thousands of weapons are either being stolen or entering the country illegally,” The New Daily said. “The fourfold rise in handgun-related charges in NSW in the past decade points to the existence of a big illegal market for concealable firearms that seems to have been underestimated in the past.” If you take guns away from law-abiding people (which is what Australia did), then only criminals will have guns. And that means that the criminals will become bolder in the face of their disarmed victims.
Half of Democrats want All guns banned.....because half the Democrats can't own weapons themselves: (ex-cons convicted of one or more felonies, have a record of being mentally unstable - including but not limited to suicidal, have an order of protection against them, etc.). They can't legally own weapons or have them in their possession, so they don't want anyone else to either. Just think of how easy it would be for Joe Blow the ragman to hold up another gas station or break into someone's house who they want to rape if they know that no one will try and stop them with the use of a firearm.
Provide some stats to back up your allegations. Otherwise, it can be considered, y'know... just your opinion.
So what? How does that prove a lever action rifle is equivalent to an ar15?
Well, meet my little friend.
Bought with my own money from the Sears & Robuck Catalog when I was 9 yo. Shipped to my door by the mailman, with a box of cartridges.
"We fully support the Second Amendment, but nobody who isn't a soldier fighting a war needs a semi-automatic weapon."
A TOTAL CONTRADICTION.
"needs a semi-automatic weapon."" Says YOU.
If you don't want one, don't get one.
Do you even KNOW waht one is?
"The RIGHT of the PEOPLE to KEEP and Bear arms shall NOT BE INFRINGED"
Just for grins, what do you think "infringed" means?
And did you KNOW that Thomas Jefferson GAVE SEMI-AUTOMATICS to Lewis & Clark for the expedition?
So, don't come back with "they were not around at the time"
No, he didn't. Meriwether Lewis bought one in 1803 that had been abandoned by the Austrian army as impractical because it was an air rifle requiring compressed, not even really a firearm. Note the date is twelve years after the Bill of Rights was enacted.
Half of Democrats want All guns banned.....because half the Democrats can't own weapons themselves: (ex-cons convicted of one or more felonies, have a record of being mentally unstable - including but not limited to suicidal, have an order of protection against them, etc.). They can't legally own weapons or have them in their possession, so they don't want anyone else to either. Just think of how easy it would be for Joe Blow the ragman to hold up another gas station or break into someone's house who they want to rape if they know that no one will try and stop them with the use of a firearm.
You made that up. It's not true. Fake, phony news. Your whole post is a lie.
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