The thing that the OZ government is conveniently not considering is that you can wind up just as dead via a knife or some other means. Removing guns was not the solution. It takes an entire reconditioning of people globally to value human life. If criminals aren't using guns, they'll use whatever is handy to accomplish their goal. Removing guns was an act of total stupidity on the part of the Australian government, nothing more.
Crimes involving knives are also on the rise.
Recently there has been a lot of controversy here over the NRA citing crime stats in Australia as reason for no gun control. Her comments after this news bite blatantly inferred the NRA had pulled the stats out of their hip pocket to further their agenda. The egg was on her face. I searched the Net and found the Herald Sun article quite easily. Needless to say, we received NO response from Channel 9.