Thursday, March 18, 2004
Here's something I didn't know
Australia has an anti-gun culture. A law passed in 1996 seized most guns held by citizens and made it illegal to use a legal firearm in self-defense. In the first four years after the law was passed, gun related crimes increased. The criminals could now be reasonably sure that they would not encounter an armed citizen, and began to use their illegal weapons more frequently.
Somehow I always thought of them as such a frontier nation . . .
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