Re: "Gun buyback scheme halves firearm deaths"


¿mÿ§t뮦@n? wrote:
In talk.politics.guns "Phil Smythe" <smytph@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gun buyback scheme halves firearm deaths

14/12/2006 - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News (c) 2006

New research reveals the risk of being shot dead in Australia has
dropped dramatically since the gun buyback scheme was introduced a
decade ago.

Homicide trends in Australia have been virtually unchanged since 1989
http://www.aic.gov.au/stats/crime/homicide.html

Pity you didn't do a more in depth investigation. Since the 1996 gun
laws the murder rate in
Australia has been;

1996 - 1.7
1997 - 1.7
1998 - 1.5
1999 - 1.8
2000 - 1.6
2001 - 1.6
2002 - 1.6
2003 - 1.5
2004 - 1.3
2005 - 1.3

Based on the reality of what's happened since the gun law changes the
trend is DOWN. If you doubt this just plug those numbers into an excel
spreadsheet, create a chart, then go Chart - Add trendline and what you
will see is a clearly declining line.

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