It really doesn’t matter if it was the same ones. The crime continues and you guys really have no way to prevent or stop it. Ask yourself, are we really any better off? I would never visit Australia. You can’t guarantee my safety and I can’t protect myself, no way.
Pro-gun Americans always like to pretend that Australia is more crime-ridden than America.
It’s simply not true.
I’ve never been robbed/mugged/burgled.
I live in Sydney, the largest and oldest Australian city. It’s the capital of New South Wales, our oldest and largest Australian state. Sydney has over 3,000,000 people.
For crime statistics in this state:
lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/bocsar/ll_bocsar.nsf/pages/bocsar_index
links to
lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/bocsar/ll_bocsar.nsf/vwFiles/RCS06.pdf/$file/RCS06.pdf
You will find that the most violent categories of crime such as murder, manslaughter etc have fallen. And they are significantly lower than the USA. And have dropped since tighter gun laws
Significant downward trends
There was a statistically significant downward trend in the monthly numbers of recorded criminal incidents for
the following offences:
break and enter – dwelling (down by 4.1%, see Figure 5)
break and enter – non-dwelling (down by 2.4%, see Figure 5)
motor vehicle theft (down by 3.0%, see Figure 6)
steal from person (down by 6.8%, see Figure 7)
Offences where there was no upward or downward trend
There was no statistically significant upward or downward trend in the monthly numbers of recorded criminal
incidents3 for any of the following offences:
murder (number of victims; see Figure 1) (1.3 per 100,000 population) (I don’t know how you guys got your statistics!)
assault – domestic violence related (see Figure 2)
assault – non-domestic violence related (see Figure 2)
sexual assault (see Figure 3)
indecent assault, act of indecency, other sexual offences (see Figure 3)
robbery without a weapon (see Figure 4)
robbery with a firearm (see Figure 4)
robbery with a weapon not a firearm (see Figure 4)
steal from motor vehicle (see Figure 6)
steal from retail store (see Figure 7)
steal from dwelling (see Figure 7)
fraud (see Figure 8)
Significant upward trends
malicious damage to property (up by 4.3%, see Figure 9)
