GUNS: Rumors of confiscation

Since the Australia Gun Confiscation Law Was passed, this law cost the taxpayers $300 million to enforce. The following is what has happened.

Homicides are up 6.2 percent, assaults are up 9.6 percent, armed robberies are up 44 percent, in the state of Victoria, homicides are up 300 percent.

The Obama administration is looking at this law to cure the gun crimes in this country. Just so you know what happens when the government takes the citizens gun away.

TOM PRICE

Coeur d’Alene

Editor’s note: Australia, which does not offer its citizens a constitutional right to own guns, implemented a gun buy-back program in 1997, which is presumably what the “gun confiscation law” references. For more information, see: http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp