Subject: Fw: Australian Gun Law
Received this in an email, maybe others have also...FN
Australian Gun Law Update (What do you think about this?
Australian Gun Law Update
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 6.2 percent,
Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 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! (This is just
what your dad used to say would happen.)
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, while the resident is at home.
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 on the American evening news or hear your governor or members
of the State Assembly disseminating this information.
The Australian experience speaks for itself. 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 too late!
FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST. [I DID ]
DON'T BE A MEMBER OF THE SILENT MAJORITY.
BE ONE OF THE VOCAL MINORITY WHO WON'T LET THIS HAPPEN IN THE
U.S.A
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