It is evident that Australia is facing a problem of violence. ... We need to ask ourselves "What can Australia do to prevent these tragedies from occurring?" ... It is a pity that it takes an incident such as this to open the eyes of our government, and lives to be lost before our insufficient gun laws are exposed. ... His proposal is a wise one because while it restricts gun ownership to a bare minimum, it does not ban all handguns in Australia. ... In conclusion, Australia's gun laws need to be reviewed and improved immediately, but a total gun ban is not wise. ...

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The question that puzzles a lot of people is " is it the governments fault or the peoples fault for all the crimes that are going on in the United States." Than again in Australia the gun control law has been enforced and the crime rate there has increased. The Australian people are terrified of this new law because now the people have no weapons to protect them selves from criminals. About a year ago I remember seeing on CNN headline news an Australian resident complaining about the law he said, " once my house was about to be robbed by crooks and the only thing I had to protect my self...

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When governments begin confiscating weapons, their first act is to require the registration of all weapons. ... The second step for these governments is to outlaw the possession of certain types of "dangerous" weapons. ... The final step is for the government to outlaw any private ownership of firearms. This is the case as it is now in England, Australia, and is the direction in which Canada is going. ... Firearms and ammunition found in a Jew's possession will be forfeited to the government without compensation. ...

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The United States' homicide rate (5.9 deaths per 100,000 people as of 2005) is higher when compared to other countries: Sweden with 1.3, Canada with 1.5, and Australia with 1.3. To go along with these rates, America has a higher gun ownership with 39% when compared to Canada with 29.1%, Australia with 19.4% and Sweden with 15.1%. ... He uses this analogy to portray the government with gun control laws to the accomplice that simply ran off with the gun. ... Another issue with gun control is the inability for the government to efficiently regulate the laws. ... These private trades of firea...

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Why do so many American's oppose our government trying to protect their safety and good will? ... Sure, gun lovers state the government is trying to take away all the guns away from citizens. Also, that the government is going to control everything in our lives because citizens won't be able to revolt. It's best remembered that citizens make up the government, the military, other official jobs, and they also have families also. ... The state or government could lock up all guns, and the lawful owner, when the gun is needed, must sign them out. ...

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With stricter gun control regulations, the government can keep guns out of the hands of people who intend to misuse them or harm others with them Another reason for new regulations is that nations with stricter regulations in place right now have much lower rates of murders and gun accidents. Japan, Great Britain, Switzerland, Canada, Sweden, and Australia are six countries with stricter gun control laws and about the same population when combined as the United States. ...

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The United States government needs to lower the amount of violent crime involving handguns. ... The government can go about eliminating the factor of gun density through the application of the fore mentioned regulations. ... The rate of unintentional gun deaths of children is nine times higher in the United States than in twenty-five other industrialized countries (such as Australia, France, Israel, Canada, Germany and England) combined (Source 3). ... Its power lies soft money donations to a political party, as well as other types, to get what they want out of the government legislation. ...

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The government, social scientists, and other politicians and professionals have studied these tragic incidents to search for the possible correlation between the availability of guns and gun violence. ... REBUTTAL While opponents argue that limiting gun usage and ownership, background checks, and waiting period for gun sales will not reduce gun related violence, giant nations like Japan, Australia and Great Britain have lesser gun-related violence because they have stricter gun control laws. ... Other great nations such as Australia, Japan, and Great Britain have realized a success in reducing...

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Anticipating the possibility that an increasingly centralized and aggressive government might seek to restrict or abolish that right, they included the right in our Constitution. ... Isn't it ironic how laws like gun registration, made to reduce firearm violence, can instead arm criminals with the very guns the government so desperately wants to control access to. In addition to the foregoing, the danger posed by gun registration in the event the government turns on its citizens is obvious. Whatever check or balance gun ownership might provide on the government is completely nullified onc...

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The militia could then be used to defend itself in the event that a new government developed a standing army to stamp out the states" militias. ... Other countries, including France, Canada, Britain, Australia, Japan and Scotland, which have enacted a total ban of all firearms, have generally found success. ...

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