Gun control

[mrmiskin]

Australian Gun Update.
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> This report is a shocker!
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> Australian Gun Law Update ----Interesting in view of past few days
>
> Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts...
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> From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
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> Hi USA, 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:
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> 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!)
>
> 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, 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.
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> 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!
> 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
>
> I was not sure if this had been posted yet and i am sure that some of you have seen it but another fact that never makes the nightly news.
>

[fabsroman]

Had my brother send me the Black Panther/Hillary Clinton e-mail today and I had to send him the snopes link for that.

Here is the Snopes link for this story:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp

Let's not believe everything we read on the internet. If I sent out a forward saying the sky is purple and the grass is pink, I wonder if people would believe me.

With that said, I am entirely in favor of people having firearms. I'm just not in favor of misleading anybody. Kind of like the local news today. A man was arrested in DC today during an immigration legalization protest (i.e., he was anti immigration). He went to the protest and had a concealed handgun on him and another weapon in the car. While at the protest, he started trouble and got into a scuffle, and that is why he was subdued. When the police searched him, they found the handgun. Everything was okay so far. The police obtained a search warrant for his residence and found 24 firearms there and ammo to go with them. OH MY!!!!! They also mentioned several times that he had a hand grenade too, but only mentioned once that it was an inoperable hand grenade. I have seen plenty of those inoperable hand grenades used as paperweights. The media is really killing me. Actually, the stupidity of the American people is really killing me. Do we actually believe all this stuff?

I have been working with a client at my house/office every day this week trying to get his 2005 and 2006 tax returns straight. He owned 15 rental properties in Baltimore during those years. Anyway, he started talking about one rental unit that he remodeled in 2004 wherein he found 50 cartridges, or "bullets" as he would say, that the previous tenant left behind. Of course, he went on to say that the guy must have been crazy because the bullets were for at least 5 different caliber guns. It was all I could do not to take him into my garage and show him how many rounds of ammunition I had in a closet, and point out how many different CARTRIDGES I had, and then ask him if he thought I was crazy too.

Of course, this guy is 55 years old, with no health insurance, and he has Parkinsons and he had stomach cancer this past December. Me, I think it is crazy to have no health insurance. Of course, he has no retirement savings either and the $500,000 he made off of selling all the rental units is almost gone. He is also driving me crazy because he thinks the answer to every problem is additional regulation by the government, and in the same breath he says the government is inefficient. Of course, this is the guy with 15 rental properties that comes to his accountant with 5 banker boxes of documents and says "Here you go. How are we going to sort this out." Nothing is filed according to property or category.

Okay, I just had to blow off that steam because I am about to start working on the 2005 tax return. The only way I am getting through this is by telling myself that the 2005 returns are worth an AR-10 and the 2006 returns are worth an AR-15.

[Dom]

I agree on checking snopes also . . .
Of course, this is the guy with 15 rental properties that comes to his accountant with 5 banker boxes of documents and says "Here you go. How are we going to sort this out." Nothing is filed according to property or category.
Hey Fabs, I feel for you on doing that guy's taxes!! You have my respect, and I do believe you will earn those ARs, man oh man, Waidmannsheil, Dom.