Re: Gun ownership figures revealed 25 years on from Port Arthur massacre

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.politics, talk.politics.guns, alt.toys.bombs.napalm
Subject	Re: Gun ownership figures revealed 25 years on from Port Arthur massacre
Date	2023-03-21 08:09 +1100
Message-ID	<op.114ievvzbyq249@pvr2.lan> (permalink)
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 07:28:54 +1100, Scout  
<me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:

>
>
> "Hasn't stopped car attacks!" <killem@with.cars> wrote in message  
> news:tv8hmm$1a576$3@paganini.bofh.team...
>> There has been a significant shift in the country's gun culture
>>
>> Australia's response to the Port Arthur massacre should be looked at by
>> the United States as an example, Sydney experts say, while warning  
>> against
>> complacency as new figures show people who own guns have bought more.
>>
>> New University of Sydney figures on gun ownership in Australia:
>> Australian civilians now own more than 3.5 million registered firearms,  
>> an
>> average of four for each licensed gun owner.
>> The proportion of Australians who hold a gun licence has fallen by 48
>> percent since 1997.
>> The proportion of Australian households with a firearm has fallen by 75
>> percent in recent decades.
>> Data indicates that people who already own guns have bought more rather
>> than an increase in new gun owners.
>> Gun control expert Adjunct Associate Professor Philip Alpers from the
>> School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, revealed the
>> figures on the eve of the 25th  anniversary of gun control since Port
>> Arthur.
>>
>> An opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald by the Head of the School  
>> of
>> Public Health, Professor Joel Negin outlined the importance of  
>> continuing
>> vigilance.  A recently published perspective, co-authored with Associate
>> Professor Alpers in the high-impact New England Journal of Medicine also
>> discussed this point.
>>
>> A University event, Public Health at the Forefront of Social Change: 25
>> Years of Gun Control since Port Arthur, discussed the impact of
>> Australia's post-1996 response and the future of fire-arm prevention.
>> Associate Professor Philip Alpers, a specialist in firearm injury
>> prevention, says:
>>
>> "In the wake of John Howard's gun reforms, the risk of an Australian  
>> dying
>> by gunshot quickly fell by more than half - and it's stayed that low for
>> 25 years.
>>
>> "In those same years, there's also been a significant shift in the
>> country's gun culture."
>>
>> In new figures published yesterday by the university-hosted project
>> GunPolicy.org, Associate Professor Alpers reported: "The proportion of
>> Australians who hold a gun licence has fallen by 48 percent, as each  
>> year
>> a smaller segment of the population decide they need a firearm."
>>
>> In 1997, the year after the Port Arthur massacre, Australia had 6.52
>> licensed firearm owners per 100 population. By 2020, that proportion had
>> almost halved, to 3.41 licensed gun owners for every 100 people.
>>
>> "Although several states and territories still refuse to release their
>> firearm licensing data, we know that today about 868,000 Australians  
>> have
>> a current gun licence," says Associate Professor Alpers.
>>
>> In 1997, the federal firearm buyback campaign reported that 1.2 million
>> Australians were licensed to possess firearms.
>>
>> "This doesn't mean Australians own fewer guns," he says.
>>
>> "Government figures show that imports of modern firearms for private
>> owners fluctuate between 65,000 and 116,000 each year. But even after 25
>> years of importing well over a million new guns since the firearm
>> buybacks, the rate of registered firearms per 100 population has only
>> risen by 1.7 percent."
>>
>> In the same period, the country's population grew by 40 percent, from  
>> 18.2
>> million to 25.5 million.
>>
>> Australian civilians now own more than 3.5 million registered firearms,  
>> an
>> average of four each. Private gun owners also hold an estimated 260,000
>> illegal firearms in the "grey market" of undeclared weapons.
>>
>> "It's clear that those who already own guns have bought more, while  
>> those
>> who don't own guns are becoming more numerous. Polling confirms this,  
>> with
>> the proportion of Australian households with a firearm falling by 75
>> percent in recent decades."
>
> Other than the fact that criminals with guns are on the rise..

Bullshit.

> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-04/illegal-firearms-shooting-police-gun-crime/101306628

Just because some fool journo claims something...

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