mornelithe said:
Ok...but people are still alive? Right? Far easier to heal/recover from a violent crime, than death. |
It depends. Would you rather have five thousand persons raped or robbed so that one person is not murdered(not saying those are the actual statistics, but to make a point.)
Here are your government statistics. Murders seemed negligible before and after 1997 (not even registered on the chart.) Assault seems to be increasing steadily, while everything else is held constant.
http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/violent%20crime.html
Interestingly though your claim that the gun control led to fewer homicides is disputed by your government.
"The homicide rate was 1.9 per 100,000 in 1996 (which includes the 35 victims of the Port Arthur massacre) and was at its highest in 1999, at 2.0 per 100,000. In 2007, the rate was 1.3 per 100,000, the lowest recorded (since 1996)."