t guns should be limited or even banned. (Outgunned.9) Banning guns is not the answer. One year in Australia gun owners were forced to surrender personal firearm. Australian government collected and destroyed 640,381 firearms in all. A process costing the over 500 million dollars. (Taking Away Our Freedom1). The results of this drastic change, were drastic themselves, but not in the ways expected. The citizens of Australia experienced a dramatic increase in criminal activity involving firearms. In the past 25 years Australia showed a steady decrease in gun related crimes. Just twelve months after the new gun laws statistics skyrocketed. Homicides were up 3.2%, assaults were up 8.6%, and armed robberies were up 44%. (Taking Away Our Freedom1) The same thing is happening in Britain. Armed crime rose 10% in 1998. Since guns are illegal every criminal wants one smuggling in guns becomes an effective way to make money fast for those that get involved (Taking Away Our Freedom 2). Smuggling in illegal guns becomes a huge market for the regular criminal.Thomas Jefferson, quoting criminologist Casare Beccaria, said: " Laws that forbid the carrying of armsdisarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants: they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." (Lapierre 39) Criminals are masters of cunning, and thus have ways of getting things they are not supposed to have. Criminals in Australia and Britain have found access to high quality guns at affordable prices, even after gun laws were passed. (Taking Away Our Freedom 2). Although criminals have access to guns here legally, as do we the citizens, such disasters, as the ones that happened in Australia and Britain, can be prevented before they begin. The legalization of concealed weapons is a marvelou...
