03-25-2018, 02:39 PM
Sources:
Notes: You may notice some duplicate or circular reporting in some of these citations. I didn't use all of these sources for my earlier posts, but as I didn't save the originals, I found additional ones while trying to find them.
1. “Australia is a socialist nation.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_Australia
https://theconversation.com/successful-p...mann-82935 Note: Bill Shorten is the leader of the Labor (socialist) Party.
https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2012...h-are-not/
2. “Australia's population is only about 25 million vs. over 327 million in the U.S.”
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/...endocument
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
3. “There are over 11 million illegal aliens in the U.S., which would be over 44% of the Australian population if they were there.”
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...n-the-u-s/
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/us/im...-show.html
Note: 11/25 = 44 %
4. “There are over 40 million Africans in the U.S., which would be over 160% of the Australian population if they were there.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography...ted_States
Note: 40/25 = 160 %
5. “The most popular crime in Australia is theft.”
https://www.osac.gov/Pages/ContentReport...?cid=20013
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/...ffenders~4
Note: In addition to these is my perception while reading local newspapers.
6. “The majority of homicides were committed using firearms. The number has been decreasing, although not consistently, since 1992, about five years before the gun confiscation law took effect. (Source: Australian Institute of Criminology, National Homicide Monitoring Program)”
https://aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi361
7. “As I tried to point out in my OP, clearly the number of gun deaths has been declining BEFORE the 1997 gun-confiscation law. Using mean slope, I see two segments, from 1987 to 2005 when the number was 220, and from 2005 to 2016, where the slope is virtualy zero, or level. You can see that in 2016 the number of gun deaths actually increased.
Firearm homicides and suicides were falling from the mid-1980s onwards, so you could pick out any subsequent year and the AVERAGE firearm homicide and suicide rates after that year would be down compared to the AVERAGE before it.”
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compar...gun_deaths
8. “In fact, since 1997 gun ownership in Australia grew over three times faster than the population (from 2.5 million to 5.8 million guns).”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-28/au...re/7366360
Not directly related to the quoted sentence but applicable to my overall theme that you can't plop Australian gun laws onto the U.S. and expect them to work:
https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/ne...e/3232814/
9. “Having traveled extensively in Europe, did you notice that European countries such as Belgium, France, and the Netherlands have even stricter gun-control laws than Australia does, but their mass public shooting rates are at least as high as those in the United States? During the Obama administration, the per capita casualty rate from shootings in the European Union was actually 27 percent higher than the U.S. rate.”
Belgium gun laws: https://www.bustle.com/articles/149385-w...earm-rules
France gun laws: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/26/opini...index.html
Netherlands gun laws: https://steemit.com/guns/@johnthehoan/th...etherlands
http://gemstatepatriot.com/blog/ban-everything/
10. “After 1997, both Australia and New Zealand experienced similar drops in mass murders, even though New Zealand had NOT altered its gun control laws.”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/2...tions.html
11. ”There are more weapons per capita in Switzerland than any other western nation, and yet the Swiss have one of the lowest crime rates in the west.”
http://www.guncite.com/swissgun-kopel.html
http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/swiss.html
12. ”Surely you've seen the statistics of how Africans commit a disproportionate number of crimes.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...ack-crime/
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/201...he-numbers
https://www.amren.com/news/2015/07/new-d...ent-crime/
http://americanfreepress.net/crime-stats...k-leaders/
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson
Notes: You may notice some duplicate or circular reporting in some of these citations. I didn't use all of these sources for my earlier posts, but as I didn't save the originals, I found additional ones while trying to find them.
1. “Australia is a socialist nation.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_Australia
https://theconversation.com/successful-p...mann-82935 Note: Bill Shorten is the leader of the Labor (socialist) Party.
https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2012...h-are-not/
2. “Australia's population is only about 25 million vs. over 327 million in the U.S.”
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/...endocument
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
3. “There are over 11 million illegal aliens in the U.S., which would be over 44% of the Australian population if they were there.”
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...n-the-u-s/
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/us/im...-show.html
Note: 11/25 = 44 %
4. “There are over 40 million Africans in the U.S., which would be over 160% of the Australian population if they were there.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography...ted_States
Note: 40/25 = 160 %
5. “The most popular crime in Australia is theft.”
https://www.osac.gov/Pages/ContentReport...?cid=20013
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/...ffenders~4
Note: In addition to these is my perception while reading local newspapers.
6. “The majority of homicides were committed using firearms. The number has been decreasing, although not consistently, since 1992, about five years before the gun confiscation law took effect. (Source: Australian Institute of Criminology, National Homicide Monitoring Program)”
https://aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi361
7. “As I tried to point out in my OP, clearly the number of gun deaths has been declining BEFORE the 1997 gun-confiscation law. Using mean slope, I see two segments, from 1987 to 2005 when the number was 220, and from 2005 to 2016, where the slope is virtualy zero, or level. You can see that in 2016 the number of gun deaths actually increased.
Firearm homicides and suicides were falling from the mid-1980s onwards, so you could pick out any subsequent year and the AVERAGE firearm homicide and suicide rates after that year would be down compared to the AVERAGE before it.”
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compar...gun_deaths
8. “In fact, since 1997 gun ownership in Australia grew over three times faster than the population (from 2.5 million to 5.8 million guns).”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-28/au...re/7366360
Not directly related to the quoted sentence but applicable to my overall theme that you can't plop Australian gun laws onto the U.S. and expect them to work:
https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/ne...e/3232814/
9. “Having traveled extensively in Europe, did you notice that European countries such as Belgium, France, and the Netherlands have even stricter gun-control laws than Australia does, but their mass public shooting rates are at least as high as those in the United States? During the Obama administration, the per capita casualty rate from shootings in the European Union was actually 27 percent higher than the U.S. rate.”
Belgium gun laws: https://www.bustle.com/articles/149385-w...earm-rules
France gun laws: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/26/opini...index.html
Netherlands gun laws: https://steemit.com/guns/@johnthehoan/th...etherlands
http://gemstatepatriot.com/blog/ban-everything/
10. “After 1997, both Australia and New Zealand experienced similar drops in mass murders, even though New Zealand had NOT altered its gun control laws.”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/2...tions.html
11. ”There are more weapons per capita in Switzerland than any other western nation, and yet the Swiss have one of the lowest crime rates in the west.”
http://www.guncite.com/swissgun-kopel.html
http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/swiss.html
12. ”Surely you've seen the statistics of how Africans commit a disproportionate number of crimes.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...ack-crime/
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/201...he-numbers
https://www.amren.com/news/2015/07/new-d...ent-crime/
http://americanfreepress.net/crime-stats...k-leaders/
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson