Gun-Controlled Melbourne: More Than One Shooting A Week Since January 2015
Written by
AWR Hawkins Published: 15 September 2016
Gun-Controlled Melbourne: More Than One Shooting A Week Since January 2015
Gun-controlled Melbourne, Australia, has witnessed more than one shooting a week every week on average since January 2015.
According to The Age, “Crimes associated with firearm possession have also more than doubled, driven by the easy availability of handguns, semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and, increasingly, machine guns, that are smuggled into the country or stolen from licensed owners.” In fact, “criminals are now better armed than at any time since then-Prime Minister John Howard introduced a nationwide firearm buyback scheme in response to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.”