Many people in the anti-2A community seem to have the idea that gun confiscation is some kind of magic bullet (no pun intended) that will magically solve gun violence in America.
That conclusion is, quite frankly, though, a conclusion brought on by a religious faith in the mystical “power” of gun control more than anything else.
But don’t take my word for it on the subject. Do the research, and look at places where gun confiscation has been implemented, and let me know if guns have disappeared.
What’s that? You’re not sure where to check?
That’s okay, I’ll help you out with it, just this one time.
So, for our “study,” we’re going to look at Australia, the country that so many anti-2A people look to as their example of how gun confiscation would be “successful.”
Of course, to define it as successful, you have to intentionally ignore it’s multitude of failures. Naziya Alvi Rahman writes,
Australian authorities have seized over 1,000 illegal firearms, parts, and imitation weapons during a national week-long crackdown targeting the manufacture and trade of illicit weapons.
The joint operation—led by the National Illicit Firearms Working Group, which includes the Australian Border Force (ABF), Australian Federal Police (AFP), state and territory forces, and New Zealand Police—resulted in 184 arrests and 854 charges across the country.
Rahman continues:
Crime Stoppers Australia estimates there are around 260,000 unregistered firearms still in circulation nationwide.
Now, gun confiscation happened in Australia nearly 30 years ago at the time of this writing. You’d think that they would have had enough time to take all the guns and prevent new ones from popping up in their country.
But that clearly isn’t the case, and they know it (the Crime Stoppers statistics makes that plain).
So, if gun confiscation doesn’t keep all firearms off of the streets, and if criminals ignore laws anyways, why does anyone think that confiscating firearms here in the U.S. will actually decrease levels of violence here?
Answer: because anti-2A laws, when it comes down to it, are about the intention to reduce violence and not about whether they actually do reduce violence (After all, gun control doesn’t actually reduce violence. At all.).