No not a load of crock, we are all forgetting that Australia didn't have a gun problem in the first place. Introducing gun laws into Australia actually increased Gun Crime and the black market, which also turned a lot of innocent people into criminals because they forgot they had a few bullets laying around in their back shed or didn't realise their Grand Father's rifle was hiding in their storage.
USA have had major gun crime laws for a long time, I can gurrantee you if they were to introduce Australia's gun laws, it won't do jack for the same reason. If you are going to use a firearm to do something bad as if you are going to go and get a license to do so. Geez I am going to shoot someone with my firearm that has it's serial number registered on a national database to my name, including where I bought the firearm from, which ammo I bought, etc. I don't think so.
Cananda were going to introduce firearm laws and looked at doing similar to Australia, until they realised that our statistics of firearms crime actually increased after our laws were introduced :rofl2: I wonder why?
Firearm laws only stop the good people not the bad and also turn a few good into bad innocently. It's not hard for someone who has been born and bred with firearms not know it's illegal to have a firearm stashed in their cupboard or stored in the roof and not think twice that it should be locked up. I used to collect live bullets when I was a kid, could you imagine that now in this day and age, everyone would be like oh my god, we need to report my parents to the authorities how can they let their 8 year old kid play with bullets? The police would come in, arrest my parents (Dad) and geez he would be the baddest person around.
Second thought though, if you were to hand a kid bullets who didn't know what bullets were, then that would be a different story. I bet you people won't see that side as our younger generation have been brought up to think that guns are bad, as a firearm can magically kill someone by itself?
As the saying goes, guns don't kill people, it's people that kill people.
End of the day, I suppose it's a good thing that the average robber in Australia know that the houses they break into are gunless as they won't need to use guns themselves, unlike America a lot of the introduders are armed as well. It's really hard to say if it is good to self defend yourself or not using a firearm.
50 / 50 really. You either arm yourself and hope you can out shoot the introduders or not arm yourself and the introduders will just be armed with a knife or no arms at all or if they do have a gun they won't shoot you.
I wouldn't shoot an intruder or a person stealing my car, but if they were to be a threat to myself or my family then I certainly would. It's either you or them? I am sure anyone would do anything to protect their family.
