by Member-Deleted » 22 Apr 2017, 6:01 pm
The National Firearms Agreement and resulting various Australian states and territories firearms legislations, are based on a lie, these sanctions are more for the purpose of political posturing and expediency, than for any real positive benefit to public safety, these laws have been adopted to align with the personal and political position of politicians from the major Australian political parties.
Statistical and historical evidence clearly shows that preventing licensed shooters from owing firearms, will have NO effect on reducing gun crime, nor will it cause any tangible decrease in the threat to public health and safety, especially given the multitude of other threats that rate much higher than firearms, the bottom line here is, even if all licensed shooters no longer had access to a firearm, criminals would still have the same access as they did previously.
This campaign of excessive regulation of licensed shooters is a failure, there is no evidence to show that the NFA has achieved any reduction in gun crime, the rate of such crime was falling at a steady rate well before the NFA, it has continued to fall at the same rate since, if governments and anti gun lobby were truly serious about enhancing the standards of public health and safety, they would target the multitude of causes of death and injury that rate far higher than firearms.