willy442
01-03-2006, 08:18 PM
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>>Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts...
>>
>>From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
>>
>>Hi friends, 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 on the
>>Canadian evening news or hear your Member of Parliament
>>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 Canadians, before it's too late!
>>
>>FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.
>>
>> DON'T BE A MEMBER OF THE SILENT MAJORITY.
>>
>> BE OF THE VOCAL MINORITY WHO WON'T LET THIS HAPPEN IN CANADA.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts...
>>
>>From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
>>
>>Hi friends, 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 on the
>>Canadian evening news or hear your Member of Parliament
>>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 Canadians, before it's too late!
>>
>>FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.
>>
>> DON'T BE A MEMBER OF THE SILENT MAJORITY.
>>
>> BE OF THE VOCAL MINORITY WHO WON'T LET THIS HAPPEN IN CANADA.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>