Significant quotes of 1999
“Chapman demonstrates a lack of understanding of the technology he is so keen to regulate.”
Reviewing Simon Chapman’s book ‘Over Our Dead Bodies’.
Don Barton, Solicitor
Law Society Journal, NSW, July 1999
“The environment is more violent and dangerous than it was some time ago.”
Mal Hyde, Police Commissioner South Australia
The Advertiser, Adelaide, 23 December 1999
“It is clear that the bans introduced in the Firearms (Amendment) Act in respect of handguns have not worked, in that, for the first six months of 1999, 59 handguns have been used in West Yorkshire.”
In a Submission to Home Affairs.
Nigel Sutcliffe, Superintendent
West Yorkshire, 1999
“Gun buybacks or exchanges do not reduce violent crime rates.”
Garen Wintermute, Director of the Violence Prevention Research Program, University of California
1999
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