The Australian media, being mostly urban and easily scared, is generally hopeless when reporting on firearms. This piece is a classic example. Note the seamless linkage between gang-related events in Melbourne’s northwest suburbs and legal gun ownership in such places as Harrow – a small rural town nearly 400 kilometres from the Victorian capital.
Note also the prominence given to the gun control lobby’s claim that more guns lead to more crime. This should be easy to verify. Simply review the crime statistics for those gun “hot spots” identified by the Herald Sun. At least the paper did some basic checking in Swifts Creek:
Welcome to Swifts Creek, home to about 278 people, 774 guns and a tank.
Firearms outnumber the local population more than two to one, but there has not been a single shooting - accidental or otherwise - in recent memory.
They’ll no doubt have found a similar situation in Harrow, had they inquired. According to these figures, the area is massively below state averages for homicide, rape, robbery, arson, burglary and theft.
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