Report
on “Unprecedented” Criminal Firearm Misuse in Melbourne Undermines
Hillary and Obama’s Calls for Australia-Style Gun Control
While
anti-gun politicians like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tout
Australia’s gun control laws as a model for the United States, recent
reporting on crime in Melbourne from newspaper The Age revealed the
limitations of Australia’s stringent laws. According to the paper,
“Despite Australia’s strict gun control regime, 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.” The paper’s reporting illustrates what gun rights advocates
have long contended; that gun controls merely disarm the law-abiding
and are ineffective in confronting criminal conduct.
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