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Scotty December 14th 06 08:44 AM

Yep..it works
 
Hitler did the same thing for Germany.


OzOne wrote in message
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National News

Gun buyback scheme halves firearm deaths
7:18 AM December 14

New research reveals the risk of being shot dead in

Australia has
dropped dramatically since the gun buyback scheme was

introduced a
decade ago.

The Federal Government's gun buyback scheme, introduced in

1996,
forced people to surrender certain firearms, including

semi-automatic
rifles and some shotguns, in the wake of the Port Arthur

massacre
which claimed 35 lives.

New published research reveals the total number of gun

deaths in a
year has halved to 289 fatalities since the buyback scheme

was
enacted.

The report's author, Professor Simon Chapman, from the

University of
Sydney says it has been a life-saving change.

"So this has been a dramatic turnaround in a spate of mass

killings we
were seeing throughout the 1990s and they seemed to have

stopped," he
said.

"When you take 700,000 guns out of an adult population of

12 million,
it stands to reason there are going to be far less

opportunities for
people to get access to those guns - whether it be for

suicide or for
homicide purposes.

"There are far less guns available to be stolen in

robberies, that go
into the criminal sub-class, and that indeed seems to be

what has
occurred."

Professor Chapman has now provided advice in New York on

tackling gun
law reform.

Researchers say the biggest change is that there have been

no mass
killings since Port Arthur.
Source: ABC


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