The truth about Australia's
gun control experiment
By David Leyonhjelm
Australians pride themselves on 'telling it like it is', but when it comes to gun laws, straight-shooting often takes a back seat to a determined effort at silencing debate.
In 1996, Australia passed some of the most restrictive gun laws in the western world. They included bans on self-loading rifles and self-loading and pump-action shotguns, universal gun registration and a taxpayer funded gun confiscation program costing over half a billion dollars. The ongoing costs of running the firearms registration systems are unknown but have been estimated at around $28 million per year, or $75,000 per day. That's more than what the average Australian earns in a year.
For that price tag, any accountable democracy should expect to have a decent debate about its efficacy. But in Australia, debate about guns has been all but silenced. Anti-gun zealots, within and outside the halls of parliament, smugly try to convince the rest of the world that Australia's model of firearms management has been a resounding success. "We saved lives!" they claim. "We stopped mass shootings!" they say.
To satisfy their conceit, they manipulate statistics to suit themselves and pretend that 'the science is settled'. This is an outright lie. ...... 
An opinion from, surprisingly perhaps, a Liberal Democrat Senator for New South Wales. The majority of genuine sentient beings should well know how efficiently the anti-gun brigade (anywhere) manages to massage figures, so helping them maintain their position with continued untruths. Read the full article.
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