By Don McDougall
United States -(AmmoLand.com)- One of the Presidential candidates commented that an increase in rapes was one of the results of the Australian gun confiscation.
The Anti-Gun left jumped into full swing to discredit this candidate’s comments. I read some of the most bizarre and inventive discussions as to why the candidate HAD to be making it up.
One reviewer gave the original statement 4 Pinocchio’s base solely on the concept that the reviewer was incapable of reading at a 3 yr grade level. Dear Anti-gunners…Not liking a statement does not make it untrue.
So below are two tables, once showing the RISE in rapes in Australia from 1997 to 2007. The other shows the drop in rapes in the US. No spin just facts.
Rapes in Australia – 1995 to 2007, the source, is the Australian Institute of Criminology:
The following table is of crime in the U.S., including rape and murders, the source if the FBI unified crime report. The rapes are in BLUE:
This simple fact is Australia had a massive gun confiscation and rapes increased by half or more over the next decade. While the US saw a fifty percent drop in rapes while the number of guns owned by American DOUBLED.
A woman in Australia is now FOUR TIMES more likely to be sexually assaulted than in the US!
As yourself this question. What would a fourfold increase in rapes do to American Society? If you’re a woman why are you voting for a candidate that would prevent you from protecting yourself?
Crime and Guns is a complex relationship; it is not as many people expect. Many on the Anti-Gun tell us all that more guns equal more crime. Seemingly willing to ignore that the number of guns has increased by 50% since Obama was elected while crime continues to drop.
25 years ago I had a beer with an old retiring Sheriff. He told me a story of how the price of initiation for the local gangs was to kidnap a girl. The younger and prettier the better. No one wants to think about what happened to her in the week or so they held her before her body was found. Strapped for manpower and with a code of silence bottling up any leads the LEOs put up ads in the local papers, in English and Spanish, announcing they were now going to pass out CCWs to women. Classes were announced and Refuse to be a Victim courses were also schedules.
Before a single permit was issued the local gangs stopped the kidnappings. The fear that a woman might have a gun was enough to change the actions of the criminals.
SO buy a gun, learn how to use it and store it safely, add to your own protections. Our Law Enforcement are the bravest and most selfless men and women we have. But they cannot be everywhere at once.
About Don McDougall:
Don McDougall is an NRA instructor and member of the Los Padres “Friends of the NRA” committee. If he’s not at the range you will find him setting the record straight with on gun issues and gun safety on AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.
Lopping off limbs is covered in Sharia law for theft. Muslims are not supposed to kill Muslims only Infidels. Just enforce the laws on the books and honest citizens will still be honest citizens. Nothing is going to stop a bully but brute force, Nothing is going to stop evil but death. Any thoughts to the contrary is a waste of time and effort. Trying to REASON with a progressive is also a waste of time, you treat them as bullies and beat the crap out of them with as big a club as you are capable of wielding. It’s… Read more »
If you remove suicides and gang killings the number of gun death is in the US is under 2,000.
Pete, who are you saying has 29 per 100,000 gun homicide rate? Australia is 1.1, and the U.S. is 3.8, per 100k It would be interesting to see what would happen to the U.S. numbers, if you removed all homicides committed with illegally aquired/owned firearms. The gun homicides per 100k would drop SIGNIFICANTLY. Ironically, as well, most of those homicides committed with illegal guns, take place in cities with the most restrictive gun laws in America. Even in Washington D.C., when the Supreme Court over-turned DC personal firearms restrictions… within 1 year of those gun law repeals, violent crime in… Read more »
Who cares whether we draw any conclusive correlation or not. In the U.S., violent crime went down in near correlation to the rise in states passing Conceal Carry laws. Until the economy tanked… the FBI Violent Crime stats showed a near 50% reduction in violent crime, from the levels FBI tracked in 1995. People can believe what they want. In Kansas, folks were freaking out because of the passage of “Constitutional Carry” and carrying on about how it was going to be like “The Wild West”. I like to point out, that good ol Bernie Sanders state, Vermont, has had… Read more »
Most of the anti-gun comments here do nothing but SUPPORT the original article. Fewer guns in Australia equals more crimes. More guns in the US equals less crime. You can spin and nip pick all you want but the basic facts remain the same.
There are a number of assumptions and misunderstandings made in this article that could be clarified. The term sexual assault covers all forms of non consenting sexual behavior in Australia not just rape. If you look at the Australian Criminology Institute’s figures before 1996 sexual assault was rising steeply then in 1996 stopped rising until 2000 when it increased then plateaued out again https://www.aic.gov.au/dataTools/facts/vicViolentCol.html What actually was restricted in Australia in 1996 were semi automatic and high powered assault rifles in response to mass killings of which went from about 1 a year to none since 1996. Hand guns have… Read more »
So! The rape in Australia went down then? Is this what your saying when you say “very dishonest”
Rick, “…who completely agree that we desperately
need a way to minimize the chance that guns will get into the hands of bad guys”.
I have a very simple solution. When a “bad guy/gal” is caught with, or using a firearm, cut off their hands. This will literally keep guns out of their hands!
I think the best supporting evidence to prove that anytime you take weapons away from civilians that CRIME, including Rape and Sexual Assaults will increase is what is currently happening in Europe with the “syrian refugee” or more accurately “muslim refugee” crisis. Why do you think these islamic thugs think they can just go around sexually molesting women without fear of people defending themselves? And not just defending themselves with lethal force but even with something as simple as pepper spray! Because of the strict anti- firearm (and anti-pepper spray) laws that exist there! These thugs exploit the fact and… Read more »
Rick
Do you have any fire extinguishers? Ever have need of one and not have it?. A personal weapon is in a higher category than that. You may never need it to defend yourself or others, but should that occasion arise, don’t be like Dr. Hupp (survivor Luby’s Cafe massacre) https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=dr.+joanna+hupp+testimony&view=detail&mid=3CBD43225276A5218E913CBD43225276A5218E91&FORM=VIRE12
What ya going to do when one of “o”boy’s refugees decides to shoot or slice up everybody in the mall? allah akbar don’t mean “hit the floor and pray he gets tired before he gets to you. Remember Charlie Hebdo and the later Paris butchery.