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[–] eongoat 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Yeah, violent crime increased

2 Main points I think, since the start of the gun ban down under:

"That same year in the state of Victoria, there was a 300 percent increase in homicides committed with firearms. The following year, robberies increased almost 60 percent in South Australia. By 1999, assaults had increased in New South Wales by almost 20 percent. Two years following the gun ban/confiscation, armed robberies rose by 73 percent, unarmed robberies by 28 percent, kidnappings by 38 percent, assaults by 17 percent and manslaughter by 29 percent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics."

"violent crime rates only began to decrease years later, as guns returned to Australian hands against the wishes of the politicians writing the laws."

UK has similar stats.

suck it.