Pete, your statistics just do not seem right, help me out here.
First you said this about gun related crime...............
"Even Australia's Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research acknowledges that the gun ban had no significant impact on the amount of gun-involved crime:
•In 2006, assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
•Sexual assault -- Australia's equivalent term for rape -- increased 29.9 percent.
•Overall, Australia's violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent."
It appears that you are saying that GUN-INVOLVED crime is way up, right?
Then you went on to say this about Austrailian crime in general.......................
"•During the same time period, all other violent crime indices increased in Australia: assault rose 49.2 percent and robbery 6.2 percent.
•Sexual assault -- Australia's equivalent term for rape -- increased 29.9 percent.
•Overall, Australia's violent crime rate rose 42.2 percent.
•At the same time, U.S. violent crime decreased 31.8 percent: rape dropped 19.2 percent; robbery decreased 33.2 percent; aggravated assault dropped 32.2 percent.
•Australian women are now raped over three times as often as American women."
Pete those are the same numbers, it looks to me like your increase in gun related rape number 29.9% is exactly the same as your total increase in rape number, also 29.9%.
You implied that for gun related crimes, Australia's violent gun crime rate rose 42.2%. Thats exactly the same number that the total violent crime rate increased 42.2%
What is going on here, is someone trying to misslead us?