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" New figures obtained by RNZ show last year had the highest rates of gun crime and deaths involving firearms for nearly 10 years.
Mate, of course 2019 had the highest rate of gun crime and deaths involving firearm, there has been the first and only mass shooting in NZ.
That one occurence killed more than 10 years of gang violence.
Nz numbers :
According to Stuff's data, there have been 105 gun-related homicides, excluding police shootings and hunting deaths, which resulted in the deaths of 167 people – 124 men and 43 women – in the past 15 years. These figures include the March 15 terror attack, counted as a single homicide event.If you subtract 50 killed in 2019 by the terrorist, that is a whopping 117 people in 15 years.
But despite that rise, there has not been a corresponding increase in officers taking out or using their guns.
The figures, obtained from police under the Official Information Act, show the rates of gun crime went up in both 2018 and 2019.
Last year, there were 3540 occasions where an offender was found with a gun.
And in both of the last two years, the rate of deadly incidents involving a firearm was the highest it had been since 2009.
The number of guns seized by police is also on the rise, up almost 50 percent on five years earlier at 1263 last year."
https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2020/05/18/nz-gun-crime-rates-soar-gun-bans/Same, it is just bad statistics that 2018 was not a great year and that 2019 had a foreign terrorist attack.
But again, with number this low (5-10 death per year) any one-off special gun crime put that charts to new high.
And "an offender was found with a gun" also mean a hunter, was speeding on a countryside road, was given a ticket, and he has a dead stag in the back and a firegun on its holster. That is one occasion.
If you exclude gang violence, the USA is one of the safest places on Earth, but some how people who promote gun control only want to do that when it serves their argument.
Only an American would say that, how many public school shootings per year do you have ?
In your case you are desperate to prove banning guns doesn't result in more gun crime so you ignore gang violence.
In the case of the USA, which has relative freedom to own firearms (except of course in the most gang infested areas) you want to show how bad legal gun ownership is, so you pretend the majority of gun homicides resulting from gang activity are just the normal day to day life of America. You aren't reading the article, you are cherry picking it.
The number above (117 people killed by guns in 15 years excluding terrorism) is inclusive of all gang/drug activities.
Assault weapons have been banned for 1 year now, no assault weapon gun-related crimes have been committed.
The Assault weapon ban has been 100% working so far.
Other types of guns are NOT banned (handgun, pistols, 0.22 riffle ...)
And for information, I do consider that no one should have a weapon in NZ unless they are "hunters" and use weapons that are for hunting.
Easy to understand, only double-digit IQ would want everybody to be armed because it is their "rights".
Oh, and by the way, in NZ we don't have a "right" to bear arms.