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
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> 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.
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> 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!)
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> 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!)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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