Australia and Gun Control

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Australia and Gun Control

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This has been posted before somewhere, I'm sure, but i thought I'd drop it on this board:

From: Ed Chenel, a police officer in Australia. Hi Yanks, I thought you all
would like to see the real figures from Down Under. It has now been 12 months
since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381
personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing
Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.

The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2
percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed
robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)! In the state of Victoria
alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while the
law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not and criminals
still possess their guns!)

While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed
robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12
months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.
There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the
elderly.

Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has
decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in
"successfully ridding Australian society of guns." You won't see this dataon
the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the
stateAssembly disseminating this information.

The Australian experience proves it. Guns in the hands of honest citizens
save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the
law-abiding citizens. Take note Americans, before it's to late!

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